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The December Night Sky and Your First Telescope? This month’s look at the sky is going to take a slightly different tack than before. We have spent the past months focusing on the major bright planets. However, December brings us the benefit of dark skies that come...
Reclaiming Life After a Hemiplegic MigraineMany illnesses are “invisible” and, in our society, the natural tendency is to insist that a person just “get on with it, deal with it.” When an illness isn’t visible, patients often put on a false face that hides what they...
Trick Riding is Being a Daredevil on a HorseA crowd has filled the seats ringing an outdoor riding arena. At one end of this arena, in a sort of staging area, stand a number of horses with their riders decked out in red and white uniforms. They are the Canadian...
The November Night Sky Growing up in the Great Lakes region, the month of November and “cloudy” are linked in my mind. Without looking back at weather tables, this is the month that seems like it has more than its fair share of cloudy, damp stretches which seem to...
Pizza for Polio: We Can All Help Eradicate Polio A large metal tube painted a dull green, is set upon wheeled legs in the corner of a room. It is a bulky and awkward contraption, a little less than a meter in diameter and about two meters long. A slight, rhythmic,...