For the first time in many months, ALL of the planets will be visible in December’s night sky. Venus and Mercury will begin the month deep in the Sun’s glare, but all the rest will start the month spread across the night sky. Naked-eye planets (that can be seen without the need of binoculars […]
Don’t we all have our share of anxieties stemming from various things that come (or may come) our way? Be you a ‘Little Mary Sunshine’ or ‘Debbie Downer’, or a ‘Happy Sam’ or ‘Gloomy Gus’, there are times when it just gets to be all too much. With that said, before we even get […]
On the eve of the September 20, 2022 release of the book The Byrds 1964-67, band co-founder Roger McGuinn shared his thoughts on their career on Steve Hyden’s UPROXX indie mixtape series. The book is a collectable art book about the band with input from McGuinn and the other surviving members of the band, […]
I originally thought the title of this FTV was a ripoff of a Steve Martin book, but I was mixed up. Martin’s book was called Cruel Shoes (Steve Martin – 1980 – Grand Central Publishing ). If you have actually read the Sensible Shoes series by Sharon Garlough Brown and thought of those books […]
VOICE OF AMERICA BEGINS ROHINGYA LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING – A Commentary by VOA Director Amanda Bennett: “Voice of America has launched its first radio program in Rohingya, the language of more than 800,000 refugees who fled Myanmar and are living in camps across the border in Bangladesh. Many international organizations are working to provide the […]
Like most of the tales told by Simon Winchester in his book The Men Who United The States – America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible (2013 – HarperCollins), the story of American railroads does not begin with trains. One has to go back a little further in […]
By the time you read this, we will only be five days from the Total Lunar Eclipse that will happen during the Full Moon of November 8. You will need to be an early riser to see this one as totality is scheduled to being at 5:16 a.m. and will last until 6:42 a.m. […]
Photo: (l-r) Halley Floyd, Austin Razmus, Mason Totzke, Will Immonen, and Matt Immonen make up the day shirt at WOAS-FM for the 2022-23 school year. When WOAS-FM 88.5 went on the air in December of 1978, there was a good size pool of student volunteers lined up to act as DJs. Students who had […]
There is gold in them there books! I stumbled upon a clip of Desi Arnaz on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson while surfing the internet. I didn’t catch the year, but a couple of things stood out. First, Johnny wore a hip white coat with a sparkly embroidered design on either side of […]
It would have made a great answer on Jeopardy. For all we know, maybe it was: “I will take MAP WORDS for $200, Alex.” “An instrument used for measuring curved lines on a map.” “Buzz – What is an ‘opisometer’, Alex” “Correct!” According to Merriam-Webster (defining words since 1828!), the pronunciation is rendered as ‘op-i-som-e-ter’ […]