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iOptron LiveStar Planetarium

January 14, 2011 // 0 Comments

Last  January we got a gift of a wonderful globe made by Stellanova. It  glowed from the inside, illuminating all of the constellations on its surface. The globe is [...]

Scientific Revolution

November 19, 2010 // 0 Comments

Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica(“Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”), popularly known as the Principia, is [...]

MOS: Reptile Exhibit

November 8, 2010 // 0 Comments

The  Boston Museum Of Science’s new exhibit, Reptiles: The Beautiful & the Deadly opened on Sunday. RainyDayMagazine had a first hand look at the critters over [...]

Mandelbrot

October 18, 2010 // 0 Comments

Fractals  are everywhere and you don’t have to be a math geek to appreciate their beauty. However, it took Benoit Mandelbrot (who WAS a serious math geek) quite a [...]

Aikido3D: FirstLook

October 1, 2010 // 0 Comments

We  recently got into a brief discussion online about what it means to be “in control.” After 10 years of Aikido practice, the one thing we have learned is that [...]

Backyard Biotech: Digital Microscopes

June 28, 2010 // 0 Comments

Back  in the beginning of the year, we started a new topic called Backyard Biotech for the RainyDayScience section of the magazine. The interns did some research and [...]

MOS: Whales Tohora

June 21, 2010 // 0 Comments

Whales have roamed the oceans for millions of years. Their relationship with man has historically been one of tension. Man has hunted whales for their oil, slaughtered them [...]

Summer Reading List

June 18, 2010 // 0 Comments

Summer is a great time for relaxing on the beach and catching up on some reading, or in our case…some listening. To readers looking for amusing detective stories, we [...]

Vanderbilt Museum

June 8, 2010 // 0 Comments

We were down in NYC last weekend for the World Science Festival. The 90º temperature in the city had us looking for cooler diversions on Saturday. After a bit of [...]

World Science Festival 2010

June 7, 2010 // 0 Comments

A full-scale model of the world’s most powerful space telescope was in New York City last week as part of the World Science Festival. NASA’s James Webb Space [...]
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