The end of life as we know it
… and the beginning of a new era in biology and astronomy. Wow! Wow, wow WOW! NASA scientists have found a microorganism that is based not on carbon, as is …
200 years and we've come to this?
It’s Darwin Day, and time to celebrate science and the beauty of observable, provable reality. But, yet, old myths, and bad policy on based on them, seem as strong as …
A new low in anti-intellectualism
Sarah Palin is a pathetic, mush-for-brains dolt. I used to think she was monumentally dumb and incurious, but had political instincts that could compensate enough for her to succeed in …
Two "Energizer bunnies" loose on Mars
This is so cool! Those little bots keep going and going and going …. NASA announced it was extending for the fifth time the mission of Mars space probes Spirit …
The Oceans of Kansas
PZ at The American Street has a great post about theNiobrara chalk deposit in Kansas. I’ve only briefly visited modern Kansas, but the Kansas of my imagination is a fiercely …