You May Be a Redneck If…
You may be a redneck if you look at this and think, “You know, that just might work!”
Science
The Overview Effect
The Overview Effect refers to the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be….
I Think Maybe It’s Rigged
Do you think it’s rigged? I think maybe it’s rigged. (No, this is not a political post: you didn’t know Trump sold the pageant?)
Culture Wars
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” –Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
Pi Day, You Say?
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is running a “Pi Day Challenge” — more here.
My Encounter with a Psychic
How do you really know they’re a fake psychic? When they say they’re a psychic.
Densest Element Named
Despite its high atomic number, Oblivium is very common in nature, especially at parties where drugs or alcohol is provided.
The Future We Were Promised
To think we’ve all been let down …by Cheerios. (Source: A slide presented at the Planetary Science Vision 2050 workshop.)
The Calamity Eclipsing Our Nation
Happenstance ≠ cause, but so many want to assign blame, it gets ridiculous. This is why thinking is so useful. (Illustration from NASA — and not the “Rogue” one.) You thought this was going to be something else, didn’t you? 😉