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...
May 21, 2020 | Movies, Science
It’s extremely improbable that there’s a parallel universe where positive is negative, left is right, and time runs backwards. But if there is, in that universe, every movie is “Memento.” Except...
May 11, 2020 | Blog, Science
On March 25, I wrote a piece suggesting that all those who insist on re-opening the country should first contact the Carnival Cruise people and book a trip that will only include others like them — the ones who won’t wear masks and don’t socially...
