Solar Eclipse Totality 2024
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 [...]
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Mayan Dresden Codex
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, [...]
Omax Trinocular Compound LED Microscope: FirstLook
We once passed on buying an electron microscope (either on FB Marketplace or Craigslist, we forget which) because, while it was free, we would have had to move it…and [...]
Questar : Axial port astrophotography
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 [...]
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