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On this day 6 months ago my dog died. Grieving a pet is an odd experience. It feels self-indulgent: with all the problems in the world,...

Last week I wrote about how to read an astronomical calendar: what information they contained and what it was used for. This post is...

For a bit of fun over on Twitter this week, I made my followers an offer: It was an offer that 60 of them couldn't refuse. Requests...

What do all those columns of letters and numbers mean? This post explains how to make sense of all the information.