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Kepler Scooped! (sort of…)
Just a couple of days ago I posted on this blog saying that the Kepler space telescope may already have the first Earth-like planet to be discovered—one capable of supporting life—in its sights. Well,...
View ArticleThe Spookiness of Chance
Sometimes life throws up the oddest of coincidences. Here’s one, for example… I have lived at my present address here in Austin, Texas, for the last 13 years. On average, I take two or three trips a...
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Buzz Aldrin’s Monolith Madness
I was poking around the underbelly of the Intertubes yesterday when I came across some entertaining astronomy nonsense that I somehow managed to miss last year—excited twittering (of the original kind)...
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Fabulous Chaos
Hubble celebrates its 20th year in space this week, and to commemorate the occasion NASA has published one of the finest Hubble photographs yet: And not to be outdone by the heavenly chaos in the...
View ArticleStephen Hawking Warns Against Making Alien Contact
Stephen Hawking may be one of the greatest theoretical physicists in history, but I’m not terribly impressed by his recent warning about making contact with aliens: In a series for the Discovery...
View ArticleThe New Elephant In The Room
How to turn the cute and adorable into the creepy and disturbing through the wonder of modern technology: I guess that’s the price we pay for our steady diet of scifi thrillers…
View ArticleConservapaedia In a Nutshell
I was surfing the inanity-insanity that is the ultra-conservative Christian website, Conservapaedia, when I came across this brief conversation that sums up the site far better than any lengthy essay...
View ArticlePaper Tiger Creationists
Currently featured on the front page of Conservapaedia is the following short article: Christian taunts to atheist Penn Jillette Below are Christian taunts to atheist Penn Jillette concerning a debate...
View ArticleA Tough Lesson in Random Chance: Mega Millions Player Struck by Lightning
In all the Mega Millions lottery fervor last week, I got as far as Googling the nearest lottery ticket outlet, and no further. I did see a number of silly articles purporting to give advice on how to...
View ArticleLosing God in a Sea of Statistics
As I was looking up some statistics for my post about the Mega Millions player who was struck by lightning, I was struck too–by the yawning gap in perspective between being a victim and being a...
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