Best Thing I Read This Week

Apr 24, 2021 | Science

Every once in a while, I come across a piece that makes me say, “Damn! I wish I had written that!” This is one of those pieces. It’s by Greg Bardsley… Roughly one year ago, so many of us spasmed. We succumbed to our fears, and we freaked out....

Best Thing I’ve Read Today

Jul 29, 2020 | Blog, Science

Derek Thompson writes about why you don’t have to worry about wiping down your mail or touching surfaces others have touched — because surface transmission of COVID-19 isn’t an actual threat — and that businesses that promote how well...

Grant Imahara

Jul 14, 2020 | Science, Television

I was saddened to hear of the sudden death of former “Mythbusters” co-star Grant Imahara at age 49. Here’s a conversation I had with him on December 9, 2016, about that show and a new project he did with Kari Byron and Tory Belleci for Netflix. Among...

Still Not In It Together

Jul 8, 2020 | Blog, Politics, Science

I have written several pieces based on the notion that, when it comes to COVID-19, we are not all in this together (here’s one, here’s another, and here’s yet another). They are mostly stories about people who reject information that doesn’t...

The Swedish Lie

Jun 11, 2020 | Science

My neighbor recently took his car to a local service station for an inspection and was shocked to see that none of the employees — including the cashier — were wearing face masks. He asked why, and was told, “We don’t believe we need them...

Time To Reboot “Meteor”

Jun 10, 2020 | Movies, Science

Jonathan O’Callaghan wrote a story in the science section of the NY Times that began: If all goes to plan, in September, 2022, a NASA spacecraft, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission or DART, will slam into a space rock with the equivalent energy of...