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Popular media coverage made this sound hair-raising: Cosmic Log - Solar blast heading our way , and the video is very cool, is it not? It ...

Sometimes I teach undergraduate college classes. As an adjunct faculty member, I don't pick the textbooks or write my own syllabus, so I...

In all the years I worked in science, microscopy was my very favorite thing, so I was excited to find this timely video on a collection of...

The Onion surprised me with another tea-spilled-in-the-keyboard moment with Science Channel Refuses To Dumb Down Science Any Further . SI...

How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel--This is chapter 3, "Schrodinger's Dog." It's wonderful. I can't t...

Last week, we tried to enter the twenty-first century. We hadn't wanted to rush into it, but it does look like it might take off. Becaus...

Another Recycling Idea: Our neighbor made a small gazebo out of an old satellite dish. It's just large enough to keep the rain off a sm...

There's more than one reason I reacted strongly to the Hummer of a House guest essay on Via Negativa. For almost a hundred years, our ...

Report from Middle School: Remember how it felt when you were a kid, watching the clock tick off the last half-hour of the school day? Thos...

I've been working my way through Soil Survey of Pocahontas County, West Virginia , a 300 page pdf file from the Soil Data Mart, a servic...

While I know my way around a species inventory, my geological knowledge would fit in a teaspoon, so I'm always looking for rock and soil...

Michael J. Ryan's wonderful Paleoblog points out that yesterday, November 14, was the birthday of Charles Lyell, prominent geologist ...

I'd love to see these topo maps of Mars . The European Space Agency has produced Martian contour maps : 12 February 2007. Scientist...