A scale map of the solar system, with the moon as a single pixel.
Category Archives: General Science
Giordano Bruno
Sorry #Cosmos, he may have been a martyr for religious freedom, but for science? Not so much.
But, you know, it has that truthiness thing going for it.
The Fossil Record
…doesn’t have a daily box score.
This is something that creationists don’t understand.
The Speed Of Light
Is it slowing down?
Louise Riofrio’s Kickstarter didn’t hit its goal last time, though it came close. She’s taking another shot at it.
The Very Far Future
A timeline. A quadrillion years seems like a long time.
Memories
Why they don’t begin until we’re three years old.
That Shark Off Manhattan Beach
…was almost certainly a dolphin, so the mother wasn’t lying to her kids.
We saw a pod of them cavorting and spouting a couple hundred yards off shore in Hermosa on Christmas Day, a few hundred yards south of where that picture was taken. Probably common or bottlenose, but hard to tell from that blurry shape in the wave.
The Speed Of Light
Louise Riofrio is raising some money to publish a book and scientific paper on an interesting cosmological theory.
A Celestial Dance
The Juno probe provided the best view ever of the earth-moon system.
Heisenberg, Call Your Office
Detecting photons without changing their quantum state.