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On June 30th we had a leap second added to the year. A leap second? That’s right, a second. W...

A couple weeks ago I was having Chinese food down in Bakersfield and opened up my fortune cookie....

Just the other day I was flipping channels since I couldn’t find anything on and stumbled across t...

It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I’m sure we can all think of o...

Getting a book published can be difficult. It took years before J.K. Rowling found a publisher for...

When scientists want to understand something they will often use an experimental “unit” and a con...

A few weeks ago I took part in an outing that took the MetroLink from Lancaster down into Downtown...

Mark your calendars – it is almost Pi Day! "What is Pi Day?" you may ask. Well, it a bit of fun b...

Having gone to school in Oklahoma I learned about the state’s many “historically black tow...

Wikipedia says that monoculture is growing a single crop over wide regions. This provides...

Back in the 1980s observations of a layer of sediment right when the dinosaurs went extinct led to a...

Often when someone says they saw a crane, what they actually saw was an egret or a heron. All are of...

Wine making is an important California industry. It’s even becoming more important in our own l...

Over the summer back in Oklahoma I had the opportunity to sample some white zinfandel jelly. I...

Near Coalinga (southwest of Fresno) back in 1948 a plane load of Mexican citizens were being flown...

The recent strong winds from out of the west help generate some very impressive lenticular clouds....

Science denialism is a problem in this country (Okay, it’s a problem in other countries too, but I...

I recently spent a day out at Joshua Tree National Park. I was participating in a writing workshop....

Recently (April 15), we had the first of four total lunar eclipses that are going to occur in the...

About 14 billion years ago the universe came into existence with the Big Bang. Early in process the...

I’m sitting here at the keyboard trying to figure out what I’m going to say, while Moonpi my dog...

As you’re reading this some of your fellow Tehachapi area residents are getting ready to put on a s...

Recently there was a change n the Galaxy with the designation M82. The designation means it was one...

OK, this might be a bit geekier than I sometimes get, but in one of the Star Wars movies (I think...

Okay, maybe it’s the fact that I just recovered from a nasty stomach bug where I couldn't do much e...