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...
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...
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...
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...
May 27, 2020 | Blog, Science
We keep hearing that our society won’t be able to return to anything approaching normalcy until enough people are inoculated with an effective vaccine for COVID-19. The problem is the minimum milestone for achieving herd immunity is 70% of the population, and I...
