It might be too overcast to see the lunar eclipse this Sunday night. But Strasenburgh Planetarium director Steve Fentress tells us what we’ll be missing and why it’s a cool sight.
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Posted inMusic
Album review: ‘Science’
The Majestics “Science” Self-released facebook.com/majesticsreggae Pure reggae, not the simile that the jamsters toy with or what the punks add with too much cream and sugar, but the straight-ahead, relaxed, one-drop of The Majestics on its new LP record, “Science” — that’s what I want, man. This Rochester band has been a giant on the […]
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Hidden history: An RIT professor helps recover ancient texts
If the revolutionary knowledge contained in works by legendary Greek mathematician Archimedes had been available earlier, many scholars say, it could’ve altered the course of modern science. Instead, the works disappeared into a void for about 1,000 years. The newly recovered works show, among other things, that Archimedes anticipated calculus, the basis for modern engineering […]
Posted inCulture
RMSC’s “ribbiting” new exhibit
A new travelling exhibit that opened at RMSC offers visitors the chance to explore the immense
biological variation within just frogs.
Posted inSpecial Sections
Kid-friendly culture
It’s easy to imagine that the blessing of warmer weather arrives with the puzzle of how to fill up more than two months when the kiddos are sprung from school. And it’s understandable that adults might not want their time to be eaten up completely with events geared entirely toward children. Many of our local […]
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Climate change is not just a future problem
Climate change is a young person’s problem, but it’s also a moral issue for people of all ages. Let me explain. We, as in all of the people on earth, are already seeing the effects of climate change: heatwaves are becoming more frequent and more intense, droughts are worsening, the oceans are warming, ice caps […]
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Victory over climate change
James Hansen sat in front of members of the US Senate and told them that the Earth is warming and that human-generated greenhouse gas emissions are to blame. Back in 1988. Hansen was director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies at the time and had been studying global warming and the greenhouse effect since […]
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Can you crowdsource prosthetic limbs? Yes, you can.
The story of a South African carpenter who accidentally sawed off most of his fingers inspired Jon Schull, a research scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology. But it wasn’t the accident; it was what came after. Over the Internet, the carpenter was able to connect with an American prop maker to create a 3D-printed prosthetic […]
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Lyme disease on the rise
Dogs and ticks have a long history together. And because of that relationship, man’s best friend is a good indicator of how prevalent Lyme disease is in an area. In Monroe County, the number of dogs testing positive for Lyme disease has been increasing. So far this year, 550 Monroe County dogs have tested positive […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Theater Review: GRRC’s “Agnes of God”
The story behind John Pielmeier’s play “Agnes of God” will be familiar to most Rochesterians who lived here in the 1970’s and early 80’s. According to the playwright’s introduction included in the program to Greater Rochester Repertory Companies’ current production of the show, Pielmeier — interested in writing a play through which he could explore […]
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Panel’s report warns of climate change future effects
Climate change is affecting every continent and we are not prepared. That is essentially the one-sentence summary of a report released today by a working group of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC is the authoritative voice on climate change. “We live in an era of man-made climate change,” Vicente Barros,co-chair […]
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Theater Review: Geva Theatre Center’s “Informed Consent”
Race is clearly a topic of interest at Geva. It is addressed very obviously in the recent “Clybourne Park,” and more subtly in “Informed Consent,” a brand-new play by Deborah Zoe Laufer in its world-premiere production. To make a very rough generalization, one play deals with race in terms of society, the other in terms […]
