Barbara Ryden
@bsryden.bsky.social
Writer of astrophysics textbooks, servant to cats
Oh, darn! This means I missed this year's "Revolution in Science" Day. (Headline in the Times of London from Nov. 7, 1919 about the same eclipse results.)
![REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE.
NEW THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE.
NEWTONIAN IDEAS OVERTHROWN.
Yesterday afternoon in the rooms of the Royal Society, at a joint session of the Royal and Astronomical Societies, the results obtained by British observers of the total eclipse of May 29 were discussed.
[Times, November 7, 1919, page 12]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yzfqfs2pagb63bgij4fzummk/bafkreiclmsoermwtxcg2s73ivrofziiae4ussveketuwxscpaz7dxujpp4@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Oh, darn! This means I missed this year's "Revolution in Science" Day. (Headline in the Times of London from Nov. 7, 1919 about the same eclipse results.)
"They do offend our sight!"
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"They do offend our sight!"
Why didn't geologists take Snider- Pelligrini seriously in 1858? Partly because of the lack of a known mechanism for plate techtonics. Partly because of his involvement in a wonky French plan to colonize Texas.
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Why didn't geologists take Snider- Pelligrini seriously in 1858? Partly because of the lack of a known mechanism for plate techtonics. Partly because of his involvement in a wonky French plan to colonize Texas.
The deer are taking over, one back yard at a time.
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The deer are taking over, one back yard at a time.
Leave them where the *faculty* can get to them...
October 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Leave them where the *faculty* can get to them...
For the love of Love...
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
For the love of Love...
Read for pleasure. Write for pain...
October 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Read for pleasure. Write for pain...
Finn has received his copy!
October 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Finn has received his copy!
Why is there more ice in Greenland than there is in Iceland?
October 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Why is there more ice in Greenland than there is in Iceland?
Glad to give your eyes some exercise!
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Glad to give your eyes some exercise!
What is the mean and standard deviation of "number of killer electric spiders at an AAS meeting"? (Trying to calibrate my chance of survival at next January's meeting in Phoenix...)
September 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
What is the mean and standard deviation of "number of killer electric spiders at an AAS meeting"? (Trying to calibrate my chance of survival at next January's meeting in Phoenix...)
Congratulations on nailing your skull and crossbats to the mast. I look forward to your piratical/baseball career with great interest.
September 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Congratulations on nailing your skull and crossbats to the mast. I look forward to your piratical/baseball career with great interest.
Somewhere there is a seven-legged spider who is the Ahab to your Moby Dick.
September 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Somewhere there is a seven-legged spider who is the Ahab to your Moby Dick.
And somehow, my office was always on a floor *without* a women's room...
September 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
And somehow, my office was always on a floor *without* a women's room...
The Sydney Harris cartoon is great!
August 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The Sydney Harris cartoon is great!
I'm on Team Pope: hoping for "Shock", the name of Belinda's lapdog in Rape of the Lock.
August 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm on Team Pope: hoping for "Shock", the name of Belinda's lapdog in Rape of the Lock.
I tend to share the fact that Max Born's granddaughter became a singer/actress, but that's because I hang out with physicists far too much!
August 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I tend to share the fact that Max Born's granddaughter became a singer/actress, but that's because I hang out with physicists far too much!