The "unvaccinated people only hurt themselves" idea needs to die in a fire. It then needs the...
Michael Siegel
Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.
Do not read this headline and think a generation of children are damaged goods. Read this...
Disease and pandemics used to be the norm. And, contra the historical revisionists, we often imposed restrictions...
We are in a golden age of astronomy, with capabilities exceeding anything we've ever had before. And...
I am going to ask folks nicely: please please stop putting out COVID vaccine numbers like this....
We look at the science behind the Doctor Who episode "Kill the Moon" which has been a...
In describing the grandeur and scope of the universe, units intended for the human experience -- meters,...
How can one "Bitcoin millionaire" suddenly create a competing "Freedom" phone overnight? The answer is that...he probably...
I take little moments of astronomy in the films Moana and Master and Commander to talk about...
For some reason, this billionaire space race has set off a wave of hand-wringing articles about how...
Are the recent reports of young people getting pericarditis from COVID-19 vaccine a reason to stop vaccinating...
The turn-of-the-century predictions of skyrocketing obesity proved incorrect and the scale we are using to judge health...
A video Thursday Throughput explaining why, no, the use of HCQ to treatment COVID-19 has not been...
Activists will continue to milk the issue, but this new paper suggests we should hold off flogging...
And so, we find ourselves in the final stage of the con. Trump's glorious promises have been...
When I was a kid, it was accepted that humpback whales were on their way to extinction....
After a year of evidence, the claim that you must choose between saving the economy and stopping...
Declining fertility rate is something to be concerned about. But our power to do anything about it...
The effort to compel the release of information under the threat of criminal law came only after...
Every 13 or 17 years, Cicadas mature to adulthood, fly around, make a hell of a lot...