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October 2019

October 23, 2019

A defense of Bishop James Ussher

Ussher famously dated the moment of creation to noon on October 23, 4004 BC. Snooty...

May 2019

May 18, 2019

Saturday is a Good Day to Learn Some Dinosaur Science

I have always loved paleontology. Learning to think in terms of Deep Time keeps you...

May 24, 2018

I used to work at Fred Hutch, so this story tickles me no end

The Hutch Closes in on a cancer cure THE MAGIC MICROSCOPIC particles that might change...

November 2017

November 22, 2017

A reader has a question about the Fall and its effects

He writes: Hey I have a question about the Fall – I can understand that...

November 17, 2017

Richard Feynman, a born teacher…

...gets us to think more deeply about magnets--and just to think more deeply: I've always...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

Cool Sciency News

Got this press release, which is cool enough to share: Colliding stars reveal their gravitational...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

Professor Julius Sumner Miller

I never heard of this guy until today: ...but he appears to have been a...

August 2017

August 21, 2017

This goes out to Donald in DC, who believes Science is Fake News

July 2017

July 21, 2017

The amazing geography of Eastern Washington

...is the result of periodic epic catastrophes like the eruption of the hotspot that is...

May 2017

May 03, 2017

Certainly not a Terminator or anything

The joke used to be that Shakespeare's plays were not written by Shakespeare but were...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

Everybody’s excited about “earthlike” planets this week

Cuz of this discovery. Now "earthlike" has a huge amount of squish to it (Earthlike how?...

February 21, 2017

Total Sci Fi Nightmare Scenario

What could possibly go wrong? “[S]cientists have discovered life trapped in crystals that could be...

February 21, 2017

Little Boy Born without 98% of His Brain

Can now speak, count, and attend school. It's not the first time this has happened....

August 2016

August 25, 2016

New Planet Found…

in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri. The reason that's a big deal is that...

August 25, 2016

You can make Giordano Bruno a free speech hero…

...if you like. Certainly, burning people alive for dumb opinions is bad. But for the...

August 12, 2016

Well there goes my day…

If you can't even trust your proton's charge radius, then what is the point?

August 08, 2016

Curiosity and I have the same birthday

Here is the most adorable and depressing thing you will hear today:

July 2016

July 26, 2016

The History of Cosmology

HT: Mike Flynn, whose Great Ptolemaic Smackdown series on how we got from geocentrism to...

July 16, 2016

In case you are wondering, the answer is “In a sense”

Not by leaving us an "ancient technique" but by giving us a) the entire universe...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

Mars Opposition, Blue Moon Happening This Weekend

Go ahead. Ask me how often that happens...

May 17, 2016

Why are Red Barns Red?

Because of the physics of dying stars. Of course you could say that about every...

December 2015

December 02, 2015

How to Go to Space

XKCD continues to be a gift to all mankind:

November 2015

November 10, 2015

SCIENCE[TM]! says “Religious kids are meaner than secular kids”

...and if you have any common sense, you ask, "Really? Seriously? I'm supposed to just...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Marco Rubio is Right

The Life of a New Human Being Begins at Conception Or, as Atheists for Life...

August 17, 2015

It’s Weird Living Under the Sword of Damocles

Seattle and Western Washington, along with the rest of the West Coast from Vancouver, BC...

April 2015

April 11, 2015

NASA may upgrade Pluto back to planet status

I'm lobbying for them to rename it "Brontosaurus".

March 2015

March 10, 2015

Extremely cool!

Gorgeous five year time lapse of the sun from NASA:

February 2015

February 17, 2015

Meet the Three Priests…

...whose work may allow us to explore under the ice of alien worlds.

February 04, 2015

This is a Big Deal

Lower rent Egyptians got mummy masks made from scraps of papyrus, sort of like papier...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

10 Quotes from Nobel Prize Winning Scientists

...on the compatibility of faith and science.

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