My Travel Discoveries,
Science Interests,
and Miscellaneous Musings

Are you tired of the commercialized Christmas season in the USA? Do you get worn out from the frenetic shopping and spending and the scurrying through jostling crowds of crass consumers?...

(The items I list here are from my special list of the best things to do in Verona.  But in all honesty this is only a partial list. For the sake of brevity I forced myself to restrict...

Perugia is a charming city, tucked away on the slopes of gentle Umbrian hills. It has a nice, large historic center ringed by more modern development. But in the city center you will...

This post will show a way to calculate the diameter and radius of the moon. These can be determined from the angular width of the Moon viewed from the Earth and using simple trigonometry. The...

This post will show a way to calculate the diameters and radii of the planets. These values can be determined when the planet is aligned with the Sun and the Earth. Then, knowing the...

This post will show a way to calculate the diameter and radius of the sun. These values can be determined from the angular width of the Sun viewed from the Earth and using simple trigonometry. The...