This ain’t your grandma’s record player
As a child who grew up in the 1980s I saw a lot of technologies come and go. I watched the video cassette mature only…
Leif Larsen
Destroying our social fabric for decades
Oct. 29 marked the 40th anniversary of a half-sent message and a computer crash, which marked the birth of the Internet. According to an interview…
Those hot-blooded bastards
Pop quiz, hotshot: you’re walking through the woods. It’s a chilly day autumn day. Birds are chirping and a light breeze licks the treetops. You…
Did you know?
Many creationists excel at one thing: calling specific facts into question in an attempt to get you asking questions about a whole theory. And while…
Vetting a scientist
Deciding whom to listen to on any issue can be a difficult task. Add personal bias into the mix, and it can become downright impossible….
Anatomy of a theory
Ever wonder what a theory — such as Darwin’s descent with modification — needs to go through in order to gain widespread acceptance in the…
What’s in an introduction?
If Hollywood is to be believed, scientists are all dermatologically-challenged recluses, who speak their incomprehensible language in nasally tones, with the odd snorting laugh thrown…
Ask a scientist
Bullets are so 19th-century, and missiles went out of style with skinny ties and leather pants. It’s the 21st century people, and some of us…
Exoplanets, wobbles and spectrum analysis, OH my!
Are we alone in the universe? This question has probably been pondered since humans first realized that each of the bright twinkling dots in the…
Wii Fit age vs. real age
On Friday, Oct. 30, prompted by one reporter’s outrage over a Nintendo Wii Fit estimating her age at 40, in the name of journalistic integrity…