First of all, they’re already nicknaming Matteo (God’s gift) to Teo, so whatever that’s fine, I didn’t expect them to really be calling their baby Matteo like he’s an astronomer from the 1500’s. But Brie’s daughter Birdie AKA Bir Bir has nicknamed her little brother Bud Bud...
Occasionally from the 12th century, and very often in Northern Europe from the 15th, the Magi are also made to represent the three known parts of the world: Balthasar is very commonly cast as a young African or Moor, and old Caspar is given Oriental features or, more often, dress. Melchi...
The splash of color that engulfed the wooden tables and bar stools first lured me into a local art studio next to my parents’ favorite supermarket. At seven years old, even I could read the big red sign: “Painting Lessons.” I peered through the studio’s glass windows and watched stud...
In my never-ending search for Adventure I stumbled into the coolest little enclave in the harbourfront park in front of my house — an astronomer’s meet-up digging infinity (to riff onLord Buckley’s line). And these people are really doing it! Whenever there’s something special going on...
Below are the lyrics for the operatic section of the song — the part that trips everyone up. You can look at it now and understand a little better what Mercury was going for. I think he used macabre themes from old plays and operas to cast an image that was delightfully off-kilter an...
2. Joanna Newsom’s “In California” has some very rambling, bucolic, old-fashioned lyrics, but it’s beautiful, and these lines might help:“To spend my life in spitting-distance of the love that I have known, I must stay here, in an endless eventide. And if you come and ...
Delicate-voiced indie/folk darling Joanna Newsom wrote the song “Emily” about her sister, an astronomer. The distinctions between meteors, meteorites and meteoroids are discussed within. Honorable Mentions Space.com staffers came up with a huge list of other songs they enjoy, which we've put...
Chaucer has been styled the "Father of English literature" and was the first writer buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.Chaucer also achieved fame in his lifetime as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his 10-year-old son Lewis. He...
Renowned astronomer Carl Sagan reminds us,"Books tap the wisdom of our species—the greatest minds, the best teachers—from all over the world and from all our history.""That's the miracle of literature," notes novelist Edward St.Aubyn,"this private communication between one intelligence and ...
John Legend, born as John Roger Stephens in Springfield, Ohio, is an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician recognized worldwide for his soulful voice and thought-provoking lyrics. Legend's journey towards fame began when he was just four years old, singing gospel songs in his church...