On varying clouds
2024-05-28 13:37 Clouds can look rather differently, which too many grow up without any awareness of.  I have read about people suddenly discovering there is more than one kind of cloud.
What global warming means
2024-05-22 13:19 Climate change means a shifting in statistical averages.  In the case of global warming this means a shift to the warmer.  Mostly this affects areas situated closer to the poles.
Climate and seasons
2024-05-17 12:46 Climate is the average weather pattern for a place or an area.  Usually, it is the average for a period of 30 years.  Far too many mistake this for how the weather is for the moment.
Myths on snow
2024-05-10 12:15 In areas were snow is rare there are of lot of misconceptions about it.  They are probably even worse in areas where it has not snowed for generations.  Of cause everyone reading this knows what snow is.
On the movements of the Sun
2024-05-02 12:57 There are people taking it for granted they already know how the Sun moves.  The trouble with this is what they think they know is false.
On the movements of the Moon
2024-04-26 12:33 A great deal of people seem to believe the Moon is only up at night.  I think it is because the crescent is used as a symbol for night-time.  Neither do they spend much attention at what one can see in the sky.
Distances in space
2024-04-24 12:31 It can be hard to grasp exactly how empty space is.  The astronomer David Morrison once got the question...
The myth of the arbitrary movements of the celestial bodies
2024-04-18 12:49 Many seem to lack basic knowledge on the movements of the celestial bodies.  This applies to things like the following...
Radioactivity, fission and fusion
2024-04-12 12:52 Radioactivity is about certain elements – or variants of them – in course of time decaying.  Most such which has been found have never been observed to decay.  A smaller fraction has and then emit ionising radiation.
What is radiation?
2024-04-10 12:06 A great deal seem to believe everything called “radiation” to be dangerous.  I think it is because the ionising was first payed attention to as such.  Which has then been overgeneralised to apply to all radiation.