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Category Archives: Shorts
Finding humor in serious illness
Recently the webcomic xkcd has run a number of strips dealing with health and serious illness. For years, xkcd has applied it’s unique (often sarcastic) humor to science, math, and romance. So it was a pleasant surprise to see the … Read the rest of this entry
Rare lunar eclipse Tuesday morning
Early on Tuesday morning (December 21, 2010), a total lunar eclipse will be visible across all of North America. A total lunar eclipse is when the full moon is gradually covered by the Earth’s shadow and plunged into total darkness, … Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Science, Shorts
Tagged astronomy, eclipse, lunar, moon, solstice, stargazing
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The ghosts of Milwaukee’s Third Ward
Last evening, I finally1 took Milwaukee Ghost’s Third Ward Walking Tour. It was an entertaining, intriguing and educational 90 minutes. The tour currently includes 15 stops and covers such historical stories as the Great Third Ward Fire,2 the shipwreck of … Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Milwaukee, Shorts
Tagged history, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Ghosts, paranormal, Third Ward, walking tour
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A new hope for science fiction on television?
Those of you who know me are probably aware of how I frequently rant about SyFy (previously known as the SciFi Channel). This once promising science fiction cable network has devolved over the last several years into a dumping ground … Read the rest of this entry
HTML 5, CSS3 and WordPress 3.0
Upgrade time! Since WordPress 3.0 was recently released and I already intended to update the theme I use here on KevinABarnes.com, I decided to leverage the opportunity and also update that theme to use both HTML 5 and CSS3. What … Read the rest of this entry
