Hello there, dear neglected readers. As you may have noticed, it’s been a while since we’ve shared our most intimate scientifical thoughts with you. But allow us to explain. You see, it’s not really our fault. The thing is, there hasn’t been one single shred of science news to tell you about in over two […]

Well that’s a load off my mind, got-dangit. My president just made it cotton-pickin’ clear that he ain’t gonna tolerate no got-damn Space-Qaedas, North Space-reans, or any other Spacemies of State getting a bead on the U. S. of A. From space.
‘Course, don’t go gittin’ yer panties in a twist about Star Wars: Part […]

Maybe there is nothing in science Mr. Orange detests more than the space shuttle, the International Space Station, and Bush’s childlike desire to send people to the moon and mars. (Not like Mr. Orange hasn’t said it before.)
Why? Because any one of these programs soaks up enough money to launch dozens of satellites and probes […]

OK, when we said “let us never speak of this again,” apparently muhfuggahs didn’t get the memo. The IAU’s decision to kill Pluto’s planet-status, barely 24 hours old, is already threatening to rend the astronomical community asunder, 95 Theses-style:
[IAU Chair Owen Gingerich] blamed the outcome in large part on a “revolt” by dynamicists - […]

It’s official: Pluto has been summarily kicked out of the planetary family, presumably for being such a dirty drug-addled slut.
OK, it was actually more for being scientifically indistinguishable from a Kuiper Belt Object. Same dif. Anyhoo, the Beeb sez that from now on, textbooks around the globe will send #9 down the memory hole. […]

Certain Tankers [*cough*] are known to become frothing geekoid fanboys when it comes to certain B-grade sci-fi conceits. Like… oil-rig ruffnecks-cum-astronauts git sent t’dahn’mite a big fuckin’ rock afore it done smashes into the earth. (Criterion-approved, bitches!) Or… a genetically engineered virus escapes the lab and turns London into a desolate, zombie-ridden hinterland. What could […]

People been sayin’ the U. S. of A. needs a new Sputnik-style bitchslap to get us off our asses and back in the global brain game. Today… we have received that bitchslap.
In the hinterlands of Kazakhstan, eh mighty thunder wez hyeard as the post-Soviet punchline republic launched its first satellite into orbit. Wired News says […]

So Stephen Hawking says we should start colonizing the moon within the next century before mankind fubars Earth. Well, my bags are packed. I got dibs on this sw33t crater just a block down from Bob Zubrin’s feldspar duplex. But here I have a fab 700 square foot apartment and a not infrequent hankering for […]

Back in the second century AD, when geocentric Aristotelian astronomy enjoyed widespread traction within scientific circles, Claudius Ptolemy, with a tip of the hat to the miscalculations of Hipparchus, proclaimed that the universe revolved around us. Fourteen centuries later, Copernicus would correct the error, humbling those whose solipsism placed Earth at the center of an […]