Asking the important questions. It remains an evolutionary mystery. Maybe Glenn (and Ben) have the right answer, but it’s unsatisfactory from a scientific standpoint.
Category Archives: General Science
On Beauty, And Truth
Some thoughts from the late Richard Feynman:
[Via Geek Press]
A Weighty Matter
Some philosophical thoughts on the variability of the kilogram.
How Many Continents Are There?
This is a lot like the Pluto brouhaha.
I Wonder If This Will Apply To Deep Space Missions?
Why the return trip seems shorter.
[Update a few minutes later]
Speaking of deep-space missions (not that it’s likely to ever fly any, or fly at all), Chris Bergin has a pretty extensive write-up on the Senate Launch System.
A Cubical Planet
What would it be like to walk around on one?
How People In Scientific Academia
How Would Other Planets Look?
…if they were the same distance from earth as the moon?
Jupiter is pretty scary. Of course, in the case of the gas giants, to first order, we’d be orbiting them, not them orbiting us.
The World’s Ugliest Animals
This is more of a Friday post, but what the hell.
[Via Debbie Witt, collector of odd links]
Rewriting The Textbooks
…in science. As I’ve been writing for years, science is a process, not a compendium.