Cav's Place

Had no plans to get anything this time around, neither from the fair nor from that little bookstore with books in English located relatively nearby but which only participated once, when I discovered them there, and has since decided to just have discounts for the duration of the fair without attending, but of course I […]

I did take part in yesterday’s March Against Monsanto organized in Bucharest and stayed all the way to the end, but I certainly wanted to leave as soon as we started marching and really felt out of place there throughout. The problem, of course, was that the very first thing Alex said when we finally […]

As you should probably already know, tomorrow’s the international March Against Monsanto day. If you somehow didn’t already know it, you learned it now and can still look for an event to attend in your area, seeing as, at the moment I’m writing this sentence, the events page lists 424 events taking place in 58 […]

Not a bad edition, all told, though the final could have been better if not for certain particularly strange decisions made by the juries and the voters in the semifinals, as there were four or five good entries that didn’t make it. Still, it was definitely better than last year and, while the top pick […]

Yesterday’s announcement has been expected for the past few months, ever since problems with a second reaction wheel were first detected, but that doesn’t make it any less unfortunate. It was well known that Kepler‘s days were numbered and the recent safe mode event taking place under such circumstances should have probably made everyone realize […]