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January 2012

January 03, 2012

China to put a man on the moon

China, the new America: China has declared its intention to land an astronaut on the...

December 2011

December 26, 2011

The multiple universe theory

An interesting article in Harper's Magazine by MIT physicist Alan Lightman on how the "multiverse"...

December 21, 2011

The “God particle”

Michael Gerson gives the most lucid explanation I have found for what the Higgs boson--a.k.a....

December 01, 2011

Non-creationist critiques of Darwinism

Marquette philosophy professor Howard Kainz reviews two new books in which atheist scholars critique Darwinism:...

November 2011

November 18, 2011

Why no two snowflakes are identical

As if to put us in the mood for winter, the Washington Post has a...

November 16, 2011

Cosmology and the speed of light

We've blogged about the discovery of neutrinos that seemed to have traveled faster than light. ...

November 11, 2011

Can natural gas ignite the economy?

New technology is unlocking vast amounts of natural gas in the United States, enough to...

October 2011

October 25, 2011

Skeptics find global warming evidence

Often researchers find what they want to find. More persuasive is when researchers find what...

October 18, 2011

In praise of the naked mole rat

Scientists have sequenced the genome of a strange little creature, the naked mole rat. Why? ...

October 10, 2011

What we half perceive and half create

Following up on last week's post and video of the The McGurk Effect, it would...

September 2011

September 26, 2011

Breaking the speed limit

Scientists have found neutrinos that seem to be traveling faster than the speed of light,...

September 13, 2011

Stem cell sausage

Yum! Scientists are on the verge of growing artificial meat in laboratories without the need...

September 01, 2011

The diamond planet

The universe is just full of wonders, and here is another one: Astronomers have spotted...

August 2011

August 29, 2011

He could-a been the champion of the world

Our week that began with an earthquake ended with a hurricane. But, as it happened,...

August 26, 2011

How did the animals know?

Shortly before the earthquake hit Washington, D.C., the animals in the National Zoo started freaking...

August 24, 2011

I felt the earth. move. under my feet

I was writing in my office at school when, around 1:51 yesterday, the building and...

August 24, 2011

Photo of Earthquake Devastation in D.C.

From Bright Young Things Via FamousDC.com HT: Necessary Roughness

August 16, 2011

Where’s the methane?

One of the major greenhouse global warming gases is methane. Scientists have discovered that there...

July 2011

July 06, 2011

Pollution cures global warming

Climate scientists--the established ones, not the renegades--have found that global surface temperatures did not rise...

June 2011

June 21, 2011

Public vs. Private tourist spots

My wife had a meeting in Lynchburg, Virginia, last week, so I tagged along. While...

June 15, 2011

Microbes that control your mind

A mash-up of weird biology and invasion of the body-snatchers: Last month, three insect and...

June 02, 2011

The new age of fossil fuels

Michael Lind, at Salon, no less, explodes the conventional wisdom: Are we living at the...

May 2011

May 23, 2011

Joplin is all but destroyed

Joplin, Missouri--an hour's drive from where I grew up, where we would often go when...

May 10, 2011

The mighty Mississippi

The street in Memphis where the blues were born is underwater, as are many of...

April 2011

April 29, 2011

Whirlwinds

I grew up in Oklahoma, right in tornado alley. We didn't have a basement or...

April 22, 2011

Good Friday conjunctions

This year Good Friday falls on April 22, which is also the new environmentalist holiday...

April 18, 2011

The health benefits of fidgeting

Some good new words here: Inactivity Studies; Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (a.k.a. NEAT). Also, I daresay,...

April 15, 2011

Spillionaires

A new word for people who got rich from British Petroleum from the oil spill...

April 13, 2011

The rights of the Earth. And of bugs. And of trees.

Before the UN, a proposal that Bolivia has already enacted, a new frontier of rights...

April 11, 2011

Stinkbug Armageddon

I hearby nominate David Williams for the Pulitzer Prize for Letters to the Editor, if...