Cultureteca 17.01.16
The 73rd Golden Globes: Awards and Red Carpet The 73rd Golden Globe Awards were held last Sunday evening, broadcast live from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, with Ricky Gervais hosting for a fourth...
Cultureteca 13.12.15
On Cultureteca this week, a look at the Geminids, the colourful and highly prolific meteor shower which is reaching its peak over this weekend; a fight breaks out in the Ukrainian parliament,...
Cultureteca 01.11.15
This week on Cultureteca, Grimes unveils new music and artwork for the impending Art Angels; Abby Wambach announces her retirement from women’s soccer; the rare planetary conjunction of Venus, Jupiter, and Mars; and for...
Cultureteca 11.10.15
On Cultureteca this week, a new study which hopes to establish the date of the formation of Earth’s inner core; the aurora borealis briefly visible across Britain owing to a coronal hole; Matjaž Tančič’s...
Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Obscured
The 2015 supermoon lunar eclipse – the rare conjunction of a total lunar eclipse, with the Moon turned red in the full shadow of the Earth, and a ‘supermoon’, where the Moon...
Cultureteca 27.09.15
T. S. Eliot’s ‘Portrait of a Lady’ Published in Others One hundred years ago this month, the third issue of Alfred Kreymborg’s little New York literary magazine Others appeared. The first issue, published in July,...
Trying to Catch the Perseids
In two sessions, on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, I stood out by York’s Millennium Bridge and watched and waited patiently and attempted to catch on camera the Perseids. The Millennium Bridge is...
Daily Visual: The Perseids Reach Their Peak
This week marks the peak of the Perseids, a prolific meteor shower. The Perseids are visible each year from the middle of July until late August, with their activity coming to a...