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Earth to the Universe via Chicago O’Hare Airport

05/21/09
(JUPITER  –  Photo: Travis Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), Chad Trujillo and the Gemini Altair Team, NOAO / AURA / NSF.) This is the International Year of Astronomy, recognizing the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of a telescope to study the heavens. So it’s appropriate that Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and the Alder Planetarium have teamed […]

Would you fly if you had to take a “tush-test?”

01/22/09
Here’s the text of my Well-Mannered Traveler column that appears this week on MSNBC.com. There’s a spirited (and somewhat disappointing) Newsvine discussion about the topic there as well. (Air Canada’s form instructs doctors on how to measure a traveler’s butt.) After fighting it for nearly a year, Canada’s major airlines finally unveiled procedures they claim […]