A few days ago my parents told me that my three-year-old niece had developed an interest in astronomy, that she had been asking her parents questions about Mars and Uranus, and she wanted to know what all the planets. “Oh,” I said. “That’s easy.” And I rattled off the list of planets, from Mercury onContinue reading “On the New Horizons Stamp Petition”
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On Random Saturday Things
I like post offices with gift shops. The Elderburg post office has a nice gift shop. They had all sorts of collectible things. I bought a postcard set. And Edgar Allan Poe stamps. I bought a picture frame. My mother gave me a photograph of my grandfather; it’s from the early 1940’s, and he’s inContinue reading “On Random Saturday Things”
On Carl Sagan Stamps
A little more than a year ago, author Kevin Lauderdale suggested that the United States needs to issue a commemorative Carl Sagan stamp. Sagan had done so much to educate the public on the wonders of science and the cosmos, and watching his television series COSMOS was very much a defining moment in my ownContinue reading “On Carl Sagan Stamps”
On a Carl Sagan Stamp
Star Trek author Kevin Lauderdale has made a proposal: It’s time to commemorate Carl Sagan, author of COSMOS and Contact with a postage stamp. I’ll let Kevin explain: December 20th will mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Carl Sagan. This makes him an eligible subject for a U.S. postage stamp. If, like me,Continue reading “On a Carl Sagan Stamp”