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...
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...
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...
Jun 13, 2018 | Movies, Science, Television
When the movie “Hidden Figures” came out a year and a half ago, I wrote about how much I enjoyed it, but how upset I was that we’d never been taught an important piece of NASA history — the role of African-American women in getting us into...
May 29, 2018 | Blog, Movies, Science, Television
Seven items off the top of my head today… On Friday, I took my daughter to the terrific “Destination: Moon” exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center and realized that most of the people around me were not alive when men first stepped onto the lunar...
