Category: Science

  • Thursday Glowing Open Comments

    It’s late, and I’m too tired to get too serious. I had heard about this, but then I stumbled upon this video. This is just too cool: Here’s another example of the glowing waves. That led me to look for more bioluminescence. Nature has its own night lights!

  • Thursday Worse than Politics Open Comments

    I was waiting for this, but it sends chills up and down my spine. …we could lose a century of progress and find ourselves dying in the millions from tuberculosis, just like our 19th-century ancestors. I was exposed to TB as a child, and had to have lung x-rays every year until I went to…

  • Wednesday Solar Flare Open Comments

    Well, the solar flare has erupted, and we are both cursed and blessed by the event: Airlines have rerouted flights, NASA had some safety calculations to do, and satellite owners/operators chewed a few nails. But it’s scenes like this that make me wish I had a ticket to the northern climes. Here’s a video of…