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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 [...]

Backyard Biotech: Prepared Slides FirstLook

September 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

The best way for us to learn how to use the new-to-us Omax microscope, and to understand what we are seeing, is to take it one step at a time, one aspect at a time. And so, [...]

Questar : Axial port astrophotography

May 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Questar Standard 3.5″ telescope is probably the finest production telescope of its size in the, um, cosmos. Old and new units are equally prized by owners the world [...]

Levitating Moon Lamp

March 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

The surface of the Moon has been studied, photographed, and explored in ever increasing detail since someone first looked up on a clear night a long long time ago. "When the [...]

Lynx Edicions: All the Birds of the World

January 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

All the Birds of the World We have looked at books from Lynx Edicions before and every volume has exceeded expectations. So while the title of this one was a pretty bold [...]
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