The most important aspect of this is that the scales, long tipped against the athletes in almost...
Michael Siegel
Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.
I checked the calculations myself and this does appear to be accurate...
People look at you strangely when you say that Yom Kippur is your favorite holiday of the...
Yes, there are stars within a few hundred light years that will go supernova. No, we...
I have, to this point, been neutral on the question of impeachment. But I'm slowly falling...
In the decades to come, we're going to learn a lot about alien planets. It would not...
I don't think there are enough exclamation points out there for me to express how gob-smacking this...
Our life is an 80-year long game of telephone we play with ourselves.
You don't need to be an economist to know that none of this is good. A President...
A new treatment for Ebola, if administered early, can cut the fatality rate to 6%, a stunning...
This is one of the classic methods of junk science -- multiplying humbug by humbug, extrapolating upward...
Really the Danes should consider the offer. After all, this may be their one chance to...
School had been out for a long time; longer than Jack could remember. He wasn’t sure why...
I'm not one of the "we have 12 years to save the planet" doomsayers. But it does...
There is no evidence that the "Better Men" ad had any impact on Gillette's sales, positive or...
Symposium: I think a Buttigieg presidency would be incredibly boring. And frankly, I could use a bit...
"The book was better" is not something I say very often, but it is no less true:...
Where we go from here...I don't think anyone knows. But we once again find ourselves in...
People talk about American Greatness. Well, astrophysics, if I do say so myself, is one the...
There was a great deal of speculation that the President would simply ignore the Court's ruling. In...
