Here’s a live webcast from Fraser Cain, Phil Plait, et al.
Category Archives: General Science
The Transit Of Venus
How to watch it this afternoon.
You know, if we were a true spacefaring civilization, we’d move the planet to get it in the same orbital plane as earth so we could do this every few months instead of once a century or so.
Best Eclipse Photo I’ve Seen
Poor Brontosaurus
The most popular and well-known dinosaur never existed.
Water Depths
A great infographic from xkcd.
The Rings Of Earth
What would they look like from the surface?
The Lunar Seas
Why do they face the earth?
An Ancient Air-Sea Battle
Fossilized. Pretty cool.
The First Americans
Were they European-Americans, rather than Siberian-Americans?
[Update a few minutes later, after reading the whole thing.]
Heh. “Iberia, not Siberia.” And not “Clovis first.”
Sodium Disposal
And now for something completely different. Dealing with tons of the stuff. They’d never be able to do this today.