Any fool can point out the thing Star Wars gets wrong about science. But what did...
Michael Siegel
Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.
This field is difficult to study and subject to large biases and complications because gun violence is...
So, here's the story on monkeypox. It is DNA orthopoxvirus -- that's the family that includes things...
The causes of mass shootings don't fit neatly into ideological priors and there is no one clear-cut...
oday, I celebrate the unveiling of the Milky Way's black hole by reviewing the film that Neil...
Is that they Eye of Sauron? The Ring of Power? Alex Jones’ colonoscopy? It’s actually the black...
At first blush, you would think that Doug Mastriano would be a good candidate for governor. Not...
We want a vaccine that deals with variants in the same way that the measles vaccine does....
Disney's 2012 John Carter. Is it accurate? Was it accurate when the books were written? Should it...
There are a number of hurdles Musk has to clear before he swaps $45b in imaginary Tesla...
That this has come out only months before Kevin McCarthy hopes to become Speaker of the House...
Russian soldiers literally dug in within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and some are now possibly being treated...
Ever since the Maunder Minimum was discovered by 19th century astronomers poring through old records, we've wondered...
The claims coming out of Bucha are horrific...A city absolutely ravaged by Putin's illegal war. And it's...
The newly detected star is so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to...
Mo Brooks wants credit, I guess, for doing the bare minimum necessary to not be a traitorous...
By viewer request, I take a whack at the 1994 movie Stargate. I talk about wormholes, linguistics,...
The fun part is...this isn't James Webb Space Telescope doing science. This is just an image...
So I'm on vacation this week with the family. Thus, a rather abbreviated Throughput for today
It's been a while since I did one of these so here's a short video looking at...
