Today is the 120th anniversary of the first powered air flight, by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk on the  Outer Banks of North Carolina. ...

This afternoon the lovely and effervescent Kristen let me know that she had composed another of her articles for this blog. That's som...

Hurricane Irene should be thrashing the coast pretty hard come this time tomorrow. As of this writing it's a Category 2 storm: weaker t...