Small stars like our Sun die with great beauty, encircled by beautiful shrouds of multicolored gases that were once their outer layers–leaving only their relic cores behind as silent testimony to the Universe that they once existed. Our Sun, like other small stars, will first become a bloated red giant that will swell in size […]
Billions and billions of starlit galaxies perform their wild ancient dance within the observable Universe. The observable, or visible, Universe is the relatively small domain of our much more vast Cosmos that we are able to observe, because whatever may or may not exist beyond the horizon of the visible Universe, has not had sufficient […]
Mysteries sing to us a mesmerizing song that tantalizes us with the unknown, and the nature of the Universe itself is the most profound of all haunting mysteries. Where did it come from, and did it have a beginning, and if it really did have a beginning, will it end–and, if so, how? Or, instead, […]
The two Magellanic Clouds are small, amorphous, starlit satellite galaxies in orbit around our own large spiral Milky Way. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is about 163,000 light-years from us, and it is the second- or third-closest galaxy to our own, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and the unconfirmed dwarf irregular galaxy named the Canis […]
The other day, I received an email from someone who said: “Tell me the whole truth about Nutrisystem. Does it really work? Is the food really good? Do you really get to eat pizza and comfort foods? Was Jillian Barberie really ever fat or is this all a scam?” This email had a lot of […]
Dancing is good for your health, for weight loss and for mental relaxation. Everyone loves to dance, including those individuals who just are blind, deaf, missing limbs or confined to a wheelchair. Many groups have formed classes to teach these people ballroom, line dances, jazz ballet and anything else they may want to learn. The […]
The shining star-splattered galaxies of the observable Universe switched on long ago, and lit up the primordial Cosmos when it was less than a billion years old. The observable (visible) Universe is really only the relatively small region of the gigantic, unexplored, and unreachable Cosmos that we can see–we cannot see the rest of it […]
Zumba fitness dance workout has been revolutionizing the way people feel about themselves. Discovered by accident about 20 ears ago, Alberto “Beto” Perez has formed Zumba workout when he improvised aerobics workout using a background Latin music. Nearly 10 years after its discovery, Beto joined two business partners, Alberto Perlman and Alberto Aghion, and formed […]
I’ll admit that when I began researching this diet, I was intrigued by the thought of being able to eat comfort foods like burgers, pizza, and tacos and still emerge looking like Jillian Barberie in her bikini or Marie Osmond in a tiny Dancing With The Stars get up. OK, so I knew that this […]
Have you ever wondered what attracts someone to a particular city or neighborhood? The answer often can be found by understanding a person’s individual needs and lifestyle. For Jake Pavelka, the reality TV star by night and airline pilot by day, the reason seems obvious. Before he started searching for love on ABC’s “The Bachelor” […]