Sometimes, you just need to grin.
Volume 53, Issue 3 —— Summer 2026
Holy cow! On May 25th, “A Fiery Visitor From Space Photo-Bombs an Erupting Volcano – For a split second, a fireball outshone the rivers of molten lava flowing from the Philippines’ most active volcano.” As reported in the New York Times and captured on AfarTV, a flaming meteor streaked over the actively-erupting Mayon volcano in the Philippines. Watch here, or on the AfarTV YouTube page!
Volume 53, Issue 3 —— Summer 2026
Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz has recently read Chasing a Conjecture: Inside the Mind of a Mathematician by Chandrashekhar Khare, a renowned number theorist at UCLA, and he highly recommends it. It takes the reader on an intellectual adventure, with very illuminating analogies and vivid storytelling. It’s a book about some brilliant math, but it also has a great heart. (Posted with permission!)
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Volume 53, Issue 2 —— Spring 2026
Ruth Kneale
OK, my dear PAMily. I want you to stop what you’re doing – or reading – and go get this book. I’ll be honest, I don’t care what the container is – just get it. It’s about a guy who just broke up with his girlfriend but is still watching her snooty cat for her for the weekend – and then the alien apocalypse arrives.
Carl has had enough. Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk has had more than enough. How are they going to get through the alien-wrought dungeon and survive? Let me tell you: it’s messy. It’s bloody. And it’s hilarious.
I had a friend recommend this to me earlier this year. I ripped through it in a weekend and had read the entire series by the end of the month. And – AND – I bought it in both e- and physical formats. I’ve since read it through again, and I can’t promise I won’t do it a third time before Book #8 arrives in May.
Read this book!