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The Galobart Books: Codex Madrid I

October 6, 2024 // 0 Comments

Leonardo di Vinci’s works, paintings, and inventions have fascinated the world, inspired generations of engineers, and had long ago captivated our imagination. We have [...]

BeaverLAB Microscopes: FirstLook

April 28, 2024 // 0 Comments

RainyDayMagazine has always been deeply interested in various forms of digital microscopy (iPhone, converting old scopes, etc.). We are particularly intrigued and have [...]

Solar Eclipse Totality 2024

April 14, 2024 // 0 Comments

Yup we…went. And in order to get as much Eclipsiality as possible, we went further afield than we anticipated we would. Days later, we are still awed by the whole d@mn [...]

The Galobart Books: Mayan Dresden Codex

April 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Mayan civilization began two thousands years before the birth of Christ, peaked between A.D. 250 and 900, and began its decline before the Americas were [...]

RainyDayGiftGuide 2023 : For Birders

December 10, 2023 // 0 Comments

As in previous years, we have put together some RainyDay-tastic Gift Guides for the 2023 holiday, full of suggestions for our readers. As with every one of our Guides, [...]

Voynich Manuscript

October 1, 2023 // 0 Comments

A fifteenth-century codex (“A manuscript volume, complete or fragmentary, as of a classic work or the sacred Scriptures”), discovered in 1912 by rare books dealer [...]

RDG: Patching the lawn…with clover

June 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

We stopped using weed killer about a decade ago, and the RainyDayGarden is better for it. Sure, we get the occasional unwanted visitor taking up residence in spots we would [...]

CMY Cubes : FirstLook

March 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

An interesting object showed up at the RainyDayMagazine office this week: a glass cube that can subtract specific wavelengths of light depending on how the cube is angled. [...]

Backyard Biotech: Life under the microscope

September 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

Looking at prepared slides was a great way to get acquainted with the new-to-us OMAX microscope. Prepared slides catapulted us into a world we knew existed, but had never [...]
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