Stephen Hawking and the Media Rolodex
Every few months, Stephen Hawking will emit some comment that, on the lips of any other person, would be dismissed as the sort of thing one of Art Bell’s daffier guests might say. Most recently, he has...
View ArticleIt’s really quite a cozy little planet God has created for us
We live in the hollow of his Hand, protected from all sorts of stuff that howls in the void outside and seeks our destruction. The earth is like a sheltered nursery or a warm cabin with a bright...
View ArticleThere are two sorts of people I want to hear from…
…when it comes to climate change and the Church’s take on it.One is Catholics who actually know the Church’s teaching. I pretty much assume the pope has that base covered, so I’m waiting to hear from...
View Article10 Quotes from Nobel Prize Winning Scientists
…on the compatibility of faith and science.
View ArticleThis is a Big Deal
Lower rent Egyptians got mummy masks made from scraps of papyrus, sort of like papier mache. So what?So this: it looks like at least one mummy mask dating from the first century has, among other...
View ArticleMeet the Three Priests…
…whose work may allow us to explore under the ice of alien worlds.
View ArticleNASA may upgrade Pluto back to planet status
I’m lobbying for them to rename it “Brontosaurus”.
View ArticleIt’s Weird Living Under the Sword of Damocles
Seattle and Western Washington, along with the rest of the West Coast from Vancouver, BC to northern California are doomed.On the bright side, real estate will go cheap after the Big One.
View ArticleMarco Rubio is Right
The Life of a New Human Being Begins at ConceptionOr, as Atheists for Life puts it: “For the embryology textbook tells me so.”It is pro-aborts, not theists, who have to ignore the science go all wooly...
View ArticleSCIENCE[TM]! says “Religious kids are meaner than secular kids”
…and if you have any common sense, you ask, “Really? Seriously? I’m supposed to just buy that because and Authority Figure in a Lab Coat said so?”If, however, you are part of the web.atheist community...
View ArticleWhy are Red Barns Red?
Because of the physics of dying stars. Of course you could say that about every heavy element. Why is gold rare? Because of the physics of dying stars. Why is water plentiful? Same deal. Why are...
View ArticleMars Opposition, Blue Moon Happening This Weekend
Go ahead. Ask me how often that happens…
View ArticleIn case you are wondering, the answer is “In a sense”
Not by leaving us an “ancient technique” but by giving us a) the entire universe and b) brains with which to understand it so that we could c) create medical science. But that’s not what people who...
View ArticleThe History of Cosmology
HT: Mike Flynn, whose Great Ptolemaic Smackdown series on how we got from geocentrism to heliocentrism is one of the most fun science series you will ever read. I’m currently in the middle of Up Jim...
View ArticleCuriosity and I have the same birthday
Here is the most adorable and depressing thing you will hear today:
View ArticleWell there goes my day…
If you can’t even trust your proton’s charge radius, then what is the point?
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