The other day I was at my favorite book store, and purchased two books with the following titles. Book 1: Only a Theory by Kenneth R. Miller; and Book 2: Final Theory by Mark Alpert. I wasn't looking for either book. Alpert's book was sitting on the display table...
In an interview on late-night television, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. outlined an energy manifesto for the next President of the United States. His comments, which were based on an article he published in Vanity Fair provide the nucleus for an potential STS investigation...
In an interview on late-night television, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. outlined an energy manifesto for the next President of the United States. His comments, which were based on an article he published in Vanity Fair provide the nucleus for an potential STS investigation...
We know that the Sichuan province earthquake destroyed enormous numbers of schools, and that many children died as a result. Andrew Revkin reported on his blog research being done by Santiago Pujol, an engineer at Purdue focusing on preventing just the kind of...
There was an interesting "My Turn" essay in this week's Newsweek entitled Lessons in Life (Science) by Sally G. Hoskins, who teaches undergraduate biology. In the article, she informs us that one of major goals in the biology course she teaches is that her...
I watched the last half-hour and the final seven minutes of terror as the Mars Lander (Phoenix) approached and continued on into the Martian atmosphere entering at about 12,000 miles/hour, and slowed to 5 miles/hour and made a perfect landing: touchdown. What was...
