Barry Evans

My love affair with Mars goes back decades, when I'd hang out with members of the Mars Underground, a small group of University of Boulder...

Public domain Loneliness personified: Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks," painted in 1942.

Back in the early 70’s when I was still young, I was city manager in Huntington, W.V. and was asked to introduce Pete Rose at a fundraiser.

Image from Austrian National Library, via Wikimedia An image of God creating the universe in the Bible Moralisee (c. 1225).

Image by Benoit Brummer, Creative Commons via Wikipedia Neanderthal hunter, Gallo-Romeins Museum Tongeren, Belgium.

File Looking toward the southwest before dawn during November of 2024. Jupiter and Mars are at conjunction — that is, they are on the same side of the sun as Earth.

Image via NASA NASA astronauts exploring near the moon's south pole.

Photo by C. Messier, edited by Bammesk, Heraklion Archeological Museum, Creative Commons via Wikipedia "Side A" of the Phaistos Disc. The reverse side has similar markings.

Columnist Barry Evans wonders that if we could blend some holiday traditions.

From his Mysterium Cosmographicum, 1597, public domain Before realizing that planets move in ellipses, Kepler tried to match their orbits into a divinely organized nest of Platonic solids enclosed within a sphere representing Saturn.