Map Monday, Where’s the closest solar eclipse in the next 25 years?

Eclipses have always fascinated me.  My first recollection of a solar eclipse doesn’t come from witnessing one, but rather from a movie.  As a child Saturdays meant watching cartoons in the morning then running around outside until dinner, except when it rained.  On rainy days my siblings and I would… Read more“Map Monday, Where’s the closest solar eclipse in the next 25 years?”

Freaky Friday, connecting equinoxes, calendars, eclipses, and wall street

March 20th 2015 has the distinction of being a double Freaky Friday. I’m not talking about the 1976 movie where teen Jodie Foster and her mother Barbara Harris exchange bodies or the 2003 remake with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. FWIW I enjoyed the former and have never seen… Read more“Freaky Friday, connecting equinoxes, calendars, eclipses, and wall street”