Click on the image to see it full size. I’m working on a new theme for the blog so that I can include larger format images. It might take some time. This is pretty much exactly what would happen if William Shatner came ’round to tea at the Prime residence. So I realized today that [...]
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 think that [...]
My favorite part about science is the fact that so much of it is, in essence, just for fun. The problem for grant writers must be spinning it so that it sounds like there’s a practical “use-value” for research. One of the first posts for this blog was about a scene from Also Sprach Zarathustra. [...]
I’m getting married in a couple of months that entails a honeymoon that me and the future missus are planning on spending on the north shore of Lake Superior. A lovely town called Grand Marais. There are bike trails in the area, so, rather than rent bicycles there, we decided to bring our own bikes. [...]
In 1961, Kennedy said, “Hey, Russia. We saw your Sputnik, and that was cool. But hey, guess what? We’re going to put a dude on the moon. That’s right. That moon.” And we did. In 1969, Neil Armstrong ambulated in a way that was at once small and giant, once again proving that distance is [...]
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