After another health setback I feared the unknown and uncontrollable One day while reading a Forbes magazine article I learned that scientists studied the rising of the ldquo Earth rsquo s rotation velocity rdquo and declared that the Earth ldquo wobbled rdquo and is ldquo spinning faster rdquo They said we ldquo could require the first-ever lsquo drop second rsquo mdash the official removal of a second from global time rdquo Though a second doesn rsquo t seem like much of a loss knowing that the earth rsquo s rotation could change seemed like a big deal to me Even [... more]

Soren Solkaer spent years photographing starlings and their breathtaking spectacle murmurations where hundreds of thousands of starlings move in fluid motion across the sky Watching this marvel is like sitting underneath an orchestrated swirling wave or a massive dark brushstroke flowing into a kaleidoscope of patterns In Denmark they call this starling experience Black Sun also the title of Solkaer rsquo s stunning book of photographs Most remarkable is how starlings instinctively follow their nearest companion flying so close that if one were to miss a beat they rsquo d suffer mass calamity However starlings use murmurations to protect one [... more]