Movie Review: “Apollo 11”

Mar 19, 2019 | Movies, Science

My thought before seeing the new documentary “Apollo 11” was, “What can this possibly contain that I — a child of the Space Race and enthusiastic absorber of all things related to real human adventures in space — haven’t seen so...

Best Thing I’ve Seen Today

Jan 14, 2019 | Science

I love this stuff. Phil Plait has a really good explanation of China’s recent moon mission, with video of the lander lowering to the lunar surface, as well as a rover rolling out and beginning to roam. See it...

Signals From Space

Jan 10, 2019 | Science

Scientists have spotted repeated blasts of radio signals coming from deep in space. Sure hope Trump’s Space Force can get up there and build a wall around Earth in time. Meanwhile, Jodie Foster sits at home repeating, “I’m okay to go. I am okay to go.” Meanwhile, my...

Book Review: “The Space Barons”

Sep 21, 2018 | Authors, Science

I just finished Christian Davenport’s book, “The Space Barons,” in which he writes about the billionaire tech guys whose obsession with space and rockets has changed the business from one run by a government monopoly (NASA) to an industry in which...

It’s A Good Day When Goop Must Pay

Sep 5, 2018 | Science, Skepticism

Remember when I told you that Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop website was selling jade eggs that it said would serve as medicinal remedies when women inserted them in their vaginas? Of course, there was no scientific basis for those claims, so a bunch of prosecutors got...

The United States vs. Breastfeeding

Jul 9, 2018 | Politics, Science

Your government has come out in opposition to breast-feeding. From the NY Times: A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United...