How Tardigrades Saved The Enterprise
This article was originally published on my Scientific American blog If you trekked into a theater last month to see …
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Treebeard Joins The NRA
This post was originally published at Scientific American [Treebeard addresses the other Ents assembled in the forest]: “We come from …
Death By Lens Flare: Drink Into Darkness
This post was originally published at my Overthinking It blog at Scientific American The latest installment of Star Trek warped …
An Open Letter to Animal Planet: Learn The Difference Between Real and Fake Monsters
This post was originally published on my new Scientific American blog, Overthinking It Dear Animal Planet: All monsters are not …
Small Study of Reflexology Finds Nothing, Headline Should Read
This post was originally published on Randi.org If alternative medicine wants to be taken more seriously, the studies must be …
Science in Aggregate: Week 18
I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this science/pop culture goodness. You can find the thousands …
The History of Science Fiction
In my daily routine of scouring the web for interesting and nerdy things, I stumbled across perhaps my new favorite …
Calculate How Much of a Spoiled 90s Kid You Were
I was born in 1989, meaning that my earliest years were filled with toys from the 90s. In fact, looking …
Science in Aggregate: Week 17
I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this science/pop culture goodness. You can find the thousands …
Could the Boston Bomber Have Fled from Infrared?
This post originally appeared on Scientific American Late last Friday a terrible week that began with the bombing of the …
The Math: What Life On Kepler-62e Would Be Like
In my latest for Popular Science, I take a look at a newly discovered exoplanet and do a little math …
Science in Aggregate: Week 16
I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this science/pop culture goodness. You can find the thousands …
Coincidences Are Meaningful, Just Not Like That
This post was originally published on Randi.org “A coincidence is like a magic trick. There is an instant tension between …
Shark Attacks in Perspective
I love comparisons and unit conversions. Most of the times they are fun. For example, if Daniel Day-Lewis touched an …
What Mushroom Clouds Can Reveal About The Waco Explosion
Last night, a fertilizer plant in Waco, Texas caught fire and exploded. The energetic rupture shook the earth for miles …
Science on the Vine: Antimatter Beer, Cat Purrs, Frame Rates, Climbing Friction
You can find all my other Science on the Vine videos here Science on the Vine: Climbing Friction vine.co/v/bFmlLWXD5hW — …
Science in Aggregate: Week 15
I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this science/pop culture goodness. You can find the thousands …
To Be A Naturalist With Crazy Artistic Skills
The photos below are reminiscent of an earlier time. A time when the low hanging fruit of biological description meant …
Science on the Vine: Colds and Acceleration
You can find all my other Science on the Vine videos here Science on the Vine: Winter Colds vine.co/v/bdY3XwQZrX3 — …
If You Shoot For The Moon and Miss…
Science, the great realizer, can’t help but bleed into inspirational quotes. So I made this: The nearest star to the …
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