Earth Day turns 40 - the movie

So many fours ... Happy Birthday Earth Day - 40 today.  So what's it all been four for? Here's forty years in four minutes forty seconds ...

Our solar system as a music box

White Vinyl Design have created a beauty.  Our solar system as a music box ... solarbeat

Astrology is a load of rubbish - that's one opinion

Ah the internet has been alight with the sound of argueing over Professor Brian Cox's comment on the BBC programme Wonders of the Universe. Nothing is more guaranteed to get headlines; a reaction and a top rank in Google, than a straight out statement dissing something that many follow. 
No he didn't say the X Factor is fixed. He simply said that astrology is rubbish, apparently. A little bit of "In my opinion, but I may be wrong" may have been useful. But hey maybe he did add that? But he isn't the first to say it. Just one of many. 

Image: NASA/JPL

As I work on the basis of don't knock it until you've tried it and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I skimmed over the debate on Twitter. (Anyway, although I wouldn't have knocked him, I didn't see it!) But very quietly, I shall say here, I have done my own research. If you are interested click through to a piece I wrote on the subject. Just my opinion.

Animation of the Planets doing their Equinox Thing

The bulbs are coming through. We're wearing less layers than three weeks ago and in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere ... the sun's out. I hope you've managed to get out in the sunshine and, even if you live in a city, you've seen some evidence of nature waking up. Here's an extraordinary animation of what has actually been going on up there this month.


Robert von Heeren
Robert Von Heeren, a German astrologer and "astronomy specialist" created this animation. Clever man. Happy First Day of Spring people.