The Best Science Blog 2007 Saga (1 of 3)
Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy (BA) and Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit (CA) have been awarded the 2007 Weblogs Award for Best Science blog. Remarkably, they are both prisoners of their own devices: BA...
View ArticleIs your SUV Destroying the Universe?
Is your SUV destroying the Universe? Supernovae data from the 1950′s to 2007 show trends very worrying for the fate of the whole cosmos. The Magnitude (brightness) of observed explosions, after...
View ArticleThe Large Hadron Collider Can Destroy Our World Indeed
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) currently awaiting to be turned on at CERN in Geneva will not destroy the Earth. But it can destroy our world: by detecting definitive evidence for so-called “dark...
View ArticleThe Tragedy Of The Anti-Space Travel Space Scientist
One can only feel sad upon reading Giovanni F Bignami’s op-ed piece about the race to the Moon and what choices to take for the future (“Once in a Blue Moon “, IHT, 18-19 July 2009). Prof Bignami’s...
View ArticleFirst Law of Planetary Building
First Law of Planetary Building: no two planets will ever be alike. Corollary #1: if two planets are almost identical, then at least one of them will have at least one outrageously peculiar feature....
View Article(Legally) Bombing The Moon
Still not much out of the LCROSS team, victims of “HYPErspace” to say the least. Let’s entertain ourselves in the intervening time with a Forbes.com article “Bombing the Moon“. And for those in a...
View ArticleA Wonderful Place To Die
It is called “Mars to Stay” and I hope it will involve a 85-year-yound Italian in 2052 going to Heaven but first stopping for around 30 years on the Red Planet. For the final resting place I select...
View ArticleVote Your Favorite Planet
Added bonus of this PBS/Nova interactive website is the clarifying that Pluto is not the only “dwarf” planet… … Continue reading →
View ArticleOur Past Is In The Sky
Far-fetched as it might seem (and be!), we might be literally surrounded by information about the Earth’s, Sun’s, Galaxy’s past. By looking in the right direction with the right instruments, we could...
View ArticleDo You Think You’re Important?
(as my contribution to the Total Perspective Vortex, this is the transcript of my Apr 4th, 2011 10-min podcast for 365daysofastronomy.org, titled “A Copernican Gallop“) Today we are going to have a...
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