The sun is shining, birds are chirping, flowers are blossoming. And now it's official- today is The First Day of Spring. (although it feels more like summer)

Miike Snow, the basically* Swedish band whose members include Pontus Winnberg, Christian Karlsson, & Andrew Wyatt, just announced  a special show in NYC. This one will take place at the limited capacity Music Hall of Williamsburg. The show is next Tuesday, the 20th.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow & are expected to fly of the shelves. There are 400 available to ticket-holders of Miike Snow's sold-out Terminal 5 shows, 100 to be released tomorrow at noon for everyone else.

Miike Snow will be joined by producer/musician Jacques Lu Cont on this date.

*Wyatt was born in the States

A series of hardcore explosions on the sun's surface are creating coronal mass ejections. ie: pieces of sun are breaking off into the atmosphere. Due to the enormous size and distance of these solar flares, speculation is that they will enter into the Earth's atmosphere. This, in turn, will distort the magnetic fields of our planet, causing a geomagnetic storm.

NOAA has stated that this will cause grid disruptions. However, solar radiation was predicted to reach G3, but it has only reached S3 so far. The main event for me= the potential for witnessing the Aurora phenomenon from the backyard!

The 12,000 year old Marshalls Creek Mastodon is one of the most significant fossils excavated within the state of Pennsylvania. The mastodon was initially discovered in a bog by a mining company on July 5th, 1968.

The Marshalls Creek Mastodon recently completed a stint as the centerpiece in the Tusks! exhibition that traveled throughout the United States. The 'Ice Age Mammoths & Mastodons' exhibition displayed prehistoric animals that roamed North America until the end of the last Ice Age.

The end of Tusks! doesn't mean that the mastodon bones will be packed into a box and shelved. [as happened previously] The mastodon has now been reassembled in its permanent location at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, in the new paleontology gallery.

'Life Through Time: A New Paleontology Experience,'  documents environmental changes spanning 296 million years, and features Phytosaurs, which resemble modern crocodiles, the Parasaurolophus, a dinosaur known for its ornamental cranial crest, and a Platybeladon, which is related to the elephants of today.