[Note: This post originally appeared at our new home at Scientific American.] One day in 1969, the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy convened in …
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We are madly traveling about the world at the moment, en route to Doha, Qatar, for the World Conference of Science Journalists. So there is …
I've been culling through my bulging fodder file, discarding all those things I was sure would make for awesome blog posts, but never got around …
A couple of weeks ago, an editor asked me to name my favorite science book from 2010 for a year-end round-up her magazine was putting …
I have just returned from Minneapolis, or more accurately, nearby Bloomington, host to the annual CONvergence science fiction and fantasy convention. Technically I was there …
If one more cold or flu virus hits our household before the end of 2009, we might officially place ourselves under quarantine, or opt to …
Yep, you read it here first. Electrons aren’t charged. At least, not according to this week’s Parade magazine. In an article by Stephen Fried, sandwiched …
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Friend of the Blog (FOB) Tom Levenson over at Inverse Square has tagged Jen-Luc Piquant with a meme for the chronically narcissistic and self-absorbed: naming …
Since we’re dallying at the science/art interface this week, here’s some breaking news via AIP’s Physics News Update: a group of Italian and German scientists …
"It's the end of the world as we know it,And I feel fine…." — R.E.M. We interrupt posting the final installment of "Brainiacs" …
