It's a sign of how crazy the times have gotten that many libertarians and conservatives -- including...
Michael Siegel
Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.
This has happened to me. More than once. In her defense, I think she was probably...
Blake's 7 is probably the best sci-fi series you've never heard of.
I don't want the extremely esoteric battle over what we call our immigration detention facilities to distract...
I really hope to live long enough to discover that we aren't completely alone, even if the...
As a scientist, I have always been intensely curious about what caused the Chernobyl explosion. The HBO...
If Musk's full system comes on line, the simple fact is that no one has done the...
I, Claudius has everything Game of Thrones had. Granted, there's a few more British actors and...
When people's children are more likely to survive, they have fewer of them. This is a...
Every moment of your life you roll dice against death. Certain things load the dice in...
Even with three nuclear disasters, the number of casualties is tiny. And it is especially tiny when...
My point is that a Trump defeat would be the first time in modern American politics where...
Scientists need our own version of Rule 34: if it exists, someone is studying it.
I don't think the idea of using anti-trust law to keep companies from monopolizing online sales is...
People want a simpler tax code ... except for the mortgage interest deduction. And the charity...
Black holes were first theorized in the 18th century. But because they are...you know...black...we couldn't image them...
This entire nontroversy is a result of two things colliding: one good and one bad. The bad...
For me, the sign of a great movie is when I'm both enjoying the current scene and...
The beautiful thing about English is that you don't have to use such an awkward phrasing as...
The hacks and grifters were determined to make an innocent gesture into an evil one. And now...
