Syntagma Launches Starstruck
Syntagma Media is delighted to announce our newest addition to the network : Startstruck, part of our 21st-century Phi network magazine.
Starstruck is not, as you might think, yet another celebrity website, but deals with the more weighty topic — in every sense — of astronomy.
Have you ever wondered what’s going on “out there”? Believe me, there’s a lot. Did you know about the 350 mile storm currently raging on Saturn, with an “eye” that looks out balefully to the rest of the Solar System?
Do you follow the 11-year cycle of Solar storms and Sunspots that correlate so well with the stockmarkets and the 11-year business cycle?
No? Well, now you can keep up to date with the universe, the galaxy and the Sun’s little local village, by tuning in to Starstruck.
Our authors are the Boston(ish) Bloggers, Clive Allen and Andrea Paulsen who probably have their eyes glued to a telescope at this moment. Let’s hope they don’t get abducted by aliens for giving away too many of their secrets.
Definitely one for the diary and the RSS feed.
Maybe well all have to buy a telescope now, John.
By Robyn McMaster on November 16th, 2006 at 2:53 am
Robyn, we’ve got a giant observatory on the top of Syntagma Towers, but I’ve never got the time to use it.
By John Evans on November 16th, 2006 at 11:25 am
What a fun site that will be John? Thanks for the heads up.
Are Clive and Andrea really in or near Boston (not sure because of the “ish?”)
That’s close to your New York writers and in fact my 2 kids are in the Cambridge area in graduate school at the moment.
Wish I’d have had a telescope and STARSTRUCK insights during my 2 years in the high arctic.
By Ellen Weber on November 17th, 2006 at 4:26 am
They live near to Boston, Ellen, not sure where exactly. I still blame them though for throwing all that tea overboard.
By John Evans on November 17th, 2006 at 10:10 am
It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who referred to the State House in Boston as “the hub of the solar system”. This eventually led to the affectionate (and mostly journalistic) use of the term “The Hub of the Universe”, or simply “The Hub” as a synonym for the City of Boston.
What better place to write “Starstruck” from?
By Andrea on November 17th, 2006 at 11:28 am
A perfect spot, Andrea, more particularly because you two are there.
By John Evans on November 17th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Oh John, you need to visit Boston, tea and all, and get the waterside view of Cambridge from one of their authentic, renovated WWII amphibious landing vehicles. I was surprised to discover that much of the area had once been underwater. It’s a wonderful city, says this Canadian who currently lives in New York and loves England:-)
By Ellen Weber on November 17th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Better to be underwater than to be under molasses like in the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
And they didn’t dump all the tea. Mrs. Jeremiah Page had some of it served to her guests in her rooftop tea party just across town.
By Andrea on November 18th, 2006 at 12:01 am