I have a new video essay on Time.com about Galileo and the International Year of Astronomy. It features exoplanet hunter […]
At the end of the Siftables session, I met Seth Raphael (also here), who was sitting two seats over from
“Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.” – Gregory Benford‘s law of controversy (an adage from
My mother used to tell me to “stand up straight.” It was one of her favorite things to say: “Stand
I noticed a long time ago, whenever my mother would lose weight, my father would gain weight. And when my
In the normal course of my web browsing, I stumbled upon the home page of Stephen E. Schwartz, an atmospheric