How would Mars, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn look from the Earth’s surface if they were as far away as we are from the Moon? Link: http://youtu.be/usYC_Z36rHw For details, including a concise explanation of how it was made, click … Continue reading
The Berkeley Earth project (link), a scientific organization founded by global warming skeptics and devoted to independent analysis of global temperature data, agrees with the Japan Meteorological Agency and with NASA and NOAA in the U.S. that the year 2014 … Continue reading
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have announce that the year 2014 was the warmest on record (link). This is in keeping with an analysis already published by the Japan Meteorological … Continue reading
The Falcon 9 rocket from the private SpaceX corporation recently delivered another Dragon capsule full of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. But this time SpaceX tried something new: a very preliminary test of a system intended to … Continue reading
This is yet another one you might have seen already, albeit in possibly abbreviated or confused form. It’s a mix of hilarious and appalling. QVC is a television shopping channel based in the U.S. (I could describe it in more … Continue reading
For years astronomer Phil Plait has written a popular blog called “Bad Astronomy” (link). He started it to correct popular misconceptions and bogus rumors about astronomy and related branches of science, such as the mistaken notion that eggs are easier … Continue reading
It’s been horribly cold in the United States the past several days. Here in North Carolina temperatures overnight fell to about 10 Fahrenheit (-12 Celsius), which is quite cold enough for me if you were about to ask, though a … Continue reading
This goes nicely with the clip from John Cleese I posted this morning: An article by Tim McDonnell (link) from just before Christmas summarizes some of last year’s worst new developments and continuing annoyances in the realm of people who, … Continue reading
[Updated to add a link to Drum’s follow-up post.] Kevin Drum, one of the best political bloggers in the business, offers up some interesting speculation about technological, environmental, economic, and political changes over roughly the next three decades (link) and … Continue reading
This video from Veritasium is surprisingly interesting, involving visits to a number of the most high-radiation places on Earth, including Chernobyl, Fukushima, and an airliner in flight. It also builds up to a shocker of an ending, so if you … Continue reading