hop, skip and a jump
If invention is the mother of necessity, it's not surprising that times of war should give rise to innovative technological breakthroughs. Such was the case …
Electromagnetism
rubber band man
[Caveat for the easily offended: today's blog post is mildly NSFW.] The Time Lord is off gallivanting in Avignon with his fellow cosmologists, leaving Jen-Luc …
the mother of invention
So, last night the Time Lord and I participated in the San Diego Science Festival with a conversation about "Exploring Your Inner Geek." We organized …
driven to diffraction
One of the coolest things about physics is that the same basic concept can pop up in several seemingly unrelated things — say, a compact …
polarizing jewelry
Remember "I want my MTV"? Not missing that much anymore, but since moving to West Virginia, I am missing my JTV. JTV – Jewelry television …
pajama-, candy-, sono- and mammo-
I got that phone call every woman over age 40 dreads. The words were somehow terribly incongruous with the Texas-accented perky voice.
“Hi there. This is Tish from the Solis Womens Health Center. We found some things we wanted to review from your last mammogram.”
my kind of town
If it's Thursday, it must be Berkeley. That's where I was a couple of nights ago, having driven up from Los Angeles to attend Lawrence …
talk radio, the space shuttle and the ionosphere
My colleague 'Yoda' leaned forward with a wry smile, as if he were about to spill a secret. "I couldn't reach the Rocket Scientist," he …
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batteries not included
I love my three-year-old MacBook Pro, but it does run through the batteries, no matter how regularly I calibrate the darn things. I'm on the …
zapping the new age
I really could have used co-blogger Allyson's advice about skeptic etiquette earlier this year. At a recent party, a bunch of my non-science-geek friends and …