Largest Animal of All Time (9/25/2014)
Since I’ve previously used this blog to lament the shrinking number of chimpanzees and elephants here on planet Earth, I was thrilled to read several headlines over the past few weeks indicating that not …
Milky Way in Context (9/19/2014)
None of us can ever really complain (or boast) about living in the boonies again now that a team of astrophysicists led by John Bochanski of Haverford College has published an …
Astronaut Tweets (9/18/2014)
In 2009, astronaut Mike Massamino made headlines when he became the first person to ever tweet from space, and, a few months later, astronaut Timothy J. Creamer made additional headlines when he became the first …
How Many Elephants are Left (9/15/2014)
Given that we now live in era of almost constant surveillance (never thought I’d write that in an offhand manner), and that Earth is apparently ensconced within a cocoon of satellites, I’m always …