Popular Science has teamed with Google to put all 137 years of the magazine on line. The site still has a few problems, but they are working to make it better.
http://www.popsci.com/announcements/article/2010-03/new-browse-137-years-popsci-archive-free
I have several boxes filled with issues going back to 1936 up through the 1950’s stored under the eaves of our house. I’ll still keep [...]

Every once in a while I read a blog posting that really blows my mind. This is one that truely impressed me with not only good writing but explains just how big the universe is.
http://anotherj.blogspot.com/2010/02/space-and-numbers.html
Earle Rich

During my period of volunteering here in Florida, I like to listen to NPR most of the time. However, I’m in an area that would be best described as ‘fringe’. FM radio works fine for screaming rock, shouting religious evangelists and country and western music. Not even close to what I want to listen to. [...]

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/
This is a blog from Jonah Lehrer, a writer for Wired magazine, among other.
This explains a lot about the way we need an element of surprise, only satisfied when the final chord completes the expectation of the frontal cortex.

As I travel around the country, I observe amateur photographers using various camera types taking photos to record their family vacation. I also see frustration when the camera stops working because the batteries run out just when that not-to-be-repeated shot disappears forever. Being the inquisitive type, I ask to see the camera and check out [...]

From an icelandic proverb.
We just returned from seven weeks in London where we greeted our new grandson into the world. It was a happy event and mother and child are doing well. It is good to be back in New Hampshire for a week before sliding off to the south for our volunteer jobs in Florida.
As [...]

As some of our readers might know, we were in London for seven weeks attending the birth of our first grandson. It’s a new title for us, being grandparents. Daughter is doing great and is happily taking on the duties of being a parent.
The only glitch was that I was unable to log on to Granite [...]

Driving up to Searsport, Maine from Rockland and looking out towards the islands, we could see the three large windmills that are close to being finished on Fox Island. Looking at the video of the tower erection, you get a good sense of the size of these machines and the men and machines needed to  [...]

Here’s something I wrote for the New Hampshire Flickr group. We have a lot of talented people who do the same type of people photography that I do.
As most of you know, we lost a good person, a mother and wife here in Mont Vernon this past weekend. Four teens selfishly decided to end her [...]

I just received a package from a photo company, perhaps the fourth in a row from different companies where the packaging was in the wrong place. Instead of surrounding the goodies, the plastic popcorn or air bags were scrunched in on top of the delicate parts. The lens and filter was in the bottom of the box where, [...]

My brother sent me a PowerPoint slide show of the process and equipment needed to get the Shuttle ready for a launch. These are some very impressive machines. I’ve always wanted to go into space myself, easy to say now that I’m too old to be considered as an applicant. From my first exposure to rockets [...]

A friend stopped by and offered me some pure water from his dehumidifier. “It must be as good as distilled water since it comes directly from the air”.
Not quite. Several years ago I had the same bright but wrong idea, thinking that I could use the seemingly pure water to mix my photo chemicals. I [...]

My daughter and her husband now live in Algeria. When she recommended Skype, the on-line telephone communications service, I was a little skeptical. But, I was willing to try it out even though I thought it might be just a poorly rendered gimmick. All I needed in addition to the laptop computer was an all-in-one [...]

As an amateur machinist, I’ve collected “stuff” over the years that might come in handy one of these days real soon. One of those was a can of Dykem Blue Layout Dye. I picked this up probably 30+ years ago and use it perhaps once a year.
Recently I picked it up and felt the [...]

This will probably be a first for the Granite Geek column, especially coming from me.
 
This is a good year for blueberries. My absolute favorite snack is a peanut butter sandwich made with fresh blueberries instead of the usual jelly or orange marmalade. Just sprinkle whole blueberries on top of the peanut butter and enjoy. There [...]