Author Archives: Stan Flouride

My first professional art job was working on the Washington, DC underground paper the Quicksilver Times in 1970-71. I drew headlines (we couldn’t afford PressType), I reduced or increased photo sizes by hand (we couldn’t afford the photo lab fees), … Continue reading →

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson (U. Washington), PHAT team, R. Gendler To better understand what stars compose the Andromeda galaxy, a group of researchers studied the nearby spiral by composing the largest image ever taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The result, called … Continue reading →

A quick jump into a low earth orbit might be good enough for some people. But if you want real space tourism, one of the 1,000 earth-like exoplanets discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope is for you.

Gomez and Pugsley Addams would love this!

My business card includes ‘Media Whore’ among my self-descriptions. Here are a few examples of why: On Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Regis Philbin: Interviewed by a couple of Stanford University students: <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/43555696″>Haight-Ashbury: A History of Unintended Consequences</a> … Continue reading →

These snowless dry luges look like they’d be a great way to spend a day. You can race in groups, pass people, even crash and it appears that each location offers several courses to choose from. Queenstown, NZ: Sentosa Island, … Continue reading →