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It's that time of the year again. Christmas time. Like every year, I wish my followers and all people of good will a Merry Christma...

Cocteau Twins with Cherry-coloured Funk . From the album Heaven or Las Vegas (1990). Scottish dreampop/shoegazing band, active from ...

Via Space Matters : Wild that for the first 380,000 years or so the nascent universe was so unbelievably hot that it precluded nuclei...

First George Harrison with Beware of Darkness . From his 1970 album All things must pass . Heavily influenced by the Radha Krishna Te...

Sorry for the inexcusably long hiatus. Too much going on, still trying to keep the company afloat (but for now we are still heading in the r...

Another year has passed. It's been fourteen years now since my father died. On Monday, May 2nd, 2011, at about 22.05, my father left...

Truly an interesting YouTube channel! Well, uh, for aviation geeks at least! MFBB.

To all DowneastBlog's followers, like every year I sincerely wish you a Happy Easter! May God bless you and your loved ones, and ...

Molchat Doma with Volny (Waves). From their second studio album Etazhi (2018). Molchat Doma (Russian: Молчат Дома, lit. 'Houses...

Via Physics in History (X: @PhysInHistory): A brief history of Quantum computers 👇 1905: Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric eff...

Over at Space dot com, astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter has this interesting column on Sommerfeld's Fine Structure Constant , a universal ...

The Smiths with Well I wonder . Album Meat is Murder (1985). Possibly the best The Smiths song, Johnny Marr outdoing himself with wo...

🇨🇳CHINA’S NEW QUANTUM COMPUTER CRUSHES GOOGLE—BY A MILLION TIMES China just pulled ahead in the quantum race, unveiling Zuchongzhi-3—a 105...

Genesis with Hairless Heart . From the album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974). English rock band Genesis formed at Charterhouse...

NEW: Los Angeles is devastated by massive wildfires, as criticism of California’s leaders heats up. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the s...

Like every year, DowneastBlog wishes its readers a Happy New Year!!! And of course a solid health. It's only when your health is ...

DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will a Merry Christmas! And while hopefully - I sincerely wish so - you are enjoying a he...

Prayers are asked for the victims of the Magdeburg islamic terror attack, in particular for André Gleissner : André 9 years old, innocent...

I cannot emphasize enough that imho, one of X's best art accounts is the one by Richard Morris . Even though the time frame from which h...

An immense amount of neutrino research is going on in the US, Japan and even Antarctica. On DowneastBlog, we've already mentioned severa...