And so here we are, 16 years later, a nation of 330 million people sniffing, snarking and snarling because a drug that has never demonstrated efficacy beyond placebo was foisted upon us as a replacement for a drug that actually, you know worked.
I don’t like masks but the hysteria over them seems fantastically out of proportion. I’m also not sure that we need to bring back mask mandates under the present circumstances.
Time to talk about one of the most amazing real-life spaceships ever built — the Lunar Excursion Model. With LEGO.
There are more HeLa cells out there than there were in Lacks entire body. The problem is that none of this was consented to by Lacks or her family and they never received a dime from it.
So my response to LK-99 is a shrug emoji. It could be the most important discovery in our lifetimes. It could be nothing. It could be anywhere in between.
Einstein’s greatest mistake may not have been his greatest mistake. It may have been his most spectacular and enduring insight.
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The Chinese blockbuster “The Wandering Earth” which is about … uh … a wandering Earth. Could the Sun actually become dangerous to our survival? Could you really push Earth out of its orbit?
By studying many pulsars all over the sky, you can see those ripples propagate across the galaxy, like measuring a tsunami wave from orbit.
The thing about exploring the depths of the ocean is that it is a lot like exploring space: the environment is brutally unforgiving of error and hubris.
In order for a scientific debate to work, it needs honest brokers, willing to admit when they’re wrong. Not “debate me, bro” gish gallopers.
A running theme with Chat GPT: It has a tendency to very confidently say things that are not true and cite sources that are fictional.
In this episode, I take my first look at the classic Star Trek TV series. In particular, would it be possible to beam people through space?
The FDA has approved the first “poop pill” that would transplant bacteria from on person’s digestive system into another.
On Wednesday, the scientists reported results that defied the long odds. The vaccine provoked an immune response in half of the patients treated
I take a look back at Disney+’s spectacular Andor series and the episode The Eye. Would something like the Eye of Aldhani be possible?
In this week’s video, I react to the 2005 film Serenity and the Firefly series that preceded it. What did it get right? What did it get wrong?
Summoning up all the knowledge of my 30 in astrophysics and fourteen years in spacecraft operations, I can explain it thusly: Sh*t ‘sploded.
Respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, has been one of those murderous viruses we’ve just accepted as a part of life.
In this video, Dr Michael Siegel reacts to the 1986 sci-fi epic Spaceballs such as ludicrous speed, vacuuming planets, the Swartz, and more!
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