Musings

2009 March 12

Measuring the Universe

After a particularly hectic editing marathon, one of the large muscles in my leg went into a spasm. Not long afterward I found myself face-down on the physiotherapists table, looking down through a hole, thinking about the size of our Universe.

2009 March 09

A Better Sky

Looking up at Fomalhaut one morning made me think of Marconi.

2009 March 07

As the Earth turns

A flat world and a blue sky.

2009 March 04

Astronomers – odd or not?

I'd like to call as my first witness one Mr Tycho Brahe.

2009 March 02

So many as the stars of heaven

While pouring water into my coffee machine the other day, I thought about the rocky Atacama desert in Chile.

2009 January 20

The end of the world

Olympic gold medallist Roland Schoeman's chiselled features stared at me from the cover of some magazine yesterday while I was searching for torch batteries at my local Pick 'n Pay. I couldn't help thinking about the end of the world.