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Saturn's moon Enceladus is turning out to be full of surprises.
Cosmology has gone from speculation and wonder to cold, hard facts. How this came about is the subject of a very good book.
Zecharia Sitchin has made a lifelong living from a series of pretty crazy books. Here we take a look at the origin of the craziness.
Gaia again makes it clear that she it mankind's sworn, eternal enemy.
Some Earth Day predictions for you to savor
Humans nearly went extinct 70,000 years ago and scientists suggest it may have been due to climate change. Pretty scary, no?
Norbert Wiener is one of the heros of the Information Age, but you've never heard of him. That's mostly because of his own paranoia and a rather nutty wife.
I found something interesting while walking the dog at Bull Creek. But what is it?
The current debate about the causes of global warming is stupid and unproductive. We should be talking about what we're going to do, no who we're going to blame.
Basenjis can be quite fun to own, but you have to understand the breed and, above all, be smarter than the dog.
The lilies of the field spectacularly marked the end of a hard summer this year.
Predicting the future is fun, easy and informative. Unless you want to be accurate...
Spell checkers are no substitute for good editors.
In this book Andrew Parker attempts to explain a long-time mystery of science: what explains the mysterious blast of evolution known as the Cambrian Explosion? Parker thinks he knows and I wouldn't be surprised if he's right.
There is more to walking than meets the eye — particularly if you have four feet. This is a pictoral essay on the various four-legged gaits.
What does it mean to have faith in science?
Human drama is exactly what NASA is not about.
Intelligent Design is a joke. Nature is full of severely unintelligent design.
New technology that will be important soon.
Willy Ley is a hero of the "space race" and this book was one of his most influential.
I only watched the finale, and boy am I glad!
What about those electric cars? Any hope there?
A general discussion of radiation, how it works, how it is measured and what is dangerous about it.
The White Rain Lilly can really amaze you.
You never know what will fly in and land in the yard.
Say hello to Saturn's moon Epimetheus.
George Adamski was a remarkable man who laid the groundwork for generations of UFO nuts to come.
We're overdue for Big Trouble.
I can refute Intelligent Design with a single snapshot.
You hear a lot of strange things at night. You even start to wonder how it can be that you can hear it all.
There are plenty of whacky things going on right here on our own planet.
Can you figure out who wrote a passage just by its style? Sometimes, yes you can.
Michael Shermer thinks he knows why people are good or evil. Amazingly, he has some science to back up his opinions.
A handy guide to what not to believe in the twisted world of pseudoscience, superstition and quackery.
