I'm applauding the cover story of the October 9, 2006 edition of Time: "What Makes Us Different?" [The quick answer is that, out of 3 billion base pairs in the human genome, only 1.23% are different than those found in the chimpanzee genome]. The writers based this article solely on the expert…
Here's a beautiful photo showing the proportionate sizes and the distance between these two familiar bodies. I'd never before seen such a beautiful and simple photo combining the Earth and the moon from this perspective. I couldn't but help imagining a tiny Apollo spacescraft making its way slowly across the…
Okay, this is (sort of) just silliness. The Alkali metals appear on that left edge of the Periodic Table of the Elements under Hydrogen. What these metals below hydrogen all have in common is that they love oxygen even more than does hydrogen. So, if you drop any of these…
I was reading the back page of the October Smithsonian, and I was inspired to do some further reading about the Moon Landing Hoax. One can guess my position, as a son of an astrophysicist who worked summers for NASA. Here are a bunch of simple and clear rebuttals to…
Here's a new website worth taking a peek: www.sefora.org, Scientists and Engineers for America. A group who are trying to activize (um activate?) because of what has been happening to science in the public eye and the administration. They are dedicated to removing theology from science teaching, and ideology from…