On Rescuing Reporters and Accurate Language in Astronomy

I imagine the recent negotiations to have gone something like this. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I like to imagine that Uncle Bill threatened Kim Jong Il with a Roman spatha.
I for one am glad that Bill Clinton gets a little attention. He gets to be the goddamned hero [...]

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How anti-matter is not anything like dark matter.

I always sort of assumed that the galaxy far, far away (though, to be fair, all galaxies except the Milky Way are “far, far away”) was one of those theoretical galaxies made primarily out of anti-matter. Of course, if you lived in an anti-matter galaxy, you’d simply think of it as matter. To [...]

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