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Once, during an opening ceremony of the winter Olympics, I heard someone say that many smaller or poorer countries enter even though they have no chance of winning any medals. It’s a remark I hear repeated occasionally and it always irks me. No one can say in advance who will win or lose. Anyone who, [...]
Lately I’ve noticed that, if I look almost due East in the evenings, I can see Mars rising. There’s something about Mars. Although Venus is the closer neighbor, it’s also closer to the Sun. And a lot less hospitable, although Mars ain’t exactly friendly to human life either. Maybe it’s because Mars seems like the [...]
Here’s a little video to take you around the universe as we say farewell to the old year and hello to the new. You get bonus points if you know what radio play turned bestselling novel turned lousy film used this song as its theme music. And if you don’t know, don’t panic.
Yesterday as I was about to cross the street a guy with a big cardboard box asked me, “Would you like a free book?” I hesitated because I wasn’t sure what it would be, then said, “Sure.” And he handed me a copy of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species. I looked at it and [...]
As a kid I had a chemistry set. I started out with it doing some of the more “educational” experiments, trying to learn serious stuff about chemistry, but then I realized I was only interested in making cool looking crystals or colors or blowing stuff up–which is why I added potassium permanganate and glycerin to [...]
About once a month my wife buys eighty pounds of raw chicken necks which I then run through a meat grinder, pack into containers, and freeze. Now I know what you’re thinking: Hey, call me the next time because I’d like to get in on that! Seriously, you’re probably wondering why anyone in their right [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by both cephalopods and creatures of the abyss, and at this time of year when there seem to be so more vampires around than usual, I can’t help thinking of the abyssal cephalopod scientists have lovingly named Vampyroteuthis infernalis, which translates as “vampire squid from Hell”. And yet, as you can [...]
“I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.”-Carl Sagan
Finding the Bathysphere in an outdoor scrap yard under the Cyclone in Coney Island was like coming across a Mercury space capsule among rusting tools and nicked furniture at a flea market.
Often when I sit down to read a scientific book I’m initially fascinated, and my fascination just keeps growing as I keep reading and letting the author unfold new information, but there’s almost always a point of critical mass at which I feel my head just can’t take any more. It’s like I hit an [...] |
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