With all the kerfuffle about Greenland (the one associated with Denmark, not the one next to Mass City, Michigan), I decided to dig back in the FTV archives for a historical piece abo…

       Let me set the record straight once and for all.  Jethro Tull was a real person.  He was an 18th Century agriculturist known for inventing the seed drill.  Tull’s name was sugges…

     Over the decades it has existed, January has been a hard month for NASA (followed closely by February).  Sadly, the loss of the Apollo 1 crew during a training session on January 27, 1967 m…

     I have an admission to make:  I have always been and continue to be addicted to reading newspapers.  It began innocently enough when I would grab the Marquette Mining Journal that the pape…

     The following artist’s names conjure up an instant mental image:  Cher, Elvis, Prince, Madonna, Rihanna, Shakira, Adele, Beyonce, Bono, Sting, Eminem, Sade, Kesha, Flea, and Slash (to nam…

       In each issue of a quarterly publication called The Planetary Report, the Planetary Society includes a trivia question.  Some are more challenging than others and everybody that emai…