What goes around, stays around.

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One evening this past month, while working on this column, Tzippi informed me of the exciting news, passed on to her by one of the women with whom she works, that on August 27 Mars would appear so large that it would look as though two moons were visible in the night sky. "Really?" I asked. "And what year is this?".

Though this story has repeatedly been shown to be a myth, ever since that first August 27 in 2003 (when Mars was, relatively speaking, considerably closer than it ever gets to earth) it continues to emerge each summer, with only the year being changed. It appears that we're not only in a headlong rush for the new - we also seem highly incapable of detaching ourselves from the old.

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Go to: Wikipedia was there first, or
Go to: Actually, I could have waited.