Glenn Greenwald mentions rumblings against Iran with the MOP (massive ordnance penetrator, a huge multiton bomb that could be used to strike hardened underground nuclear facilities. However, what caught my attention was not the politics about the...

LCROSS infrared spectrum LCROSS crashed into the Moon last month, although the lack of a visible plume in the real-time video feed made the impact less exciting than it could have been. But the lack of a visible plume is hardly a failure, since...

I often watch The Daily Show, and Jon Stewart’s recent tribute to Glenn Beck was just so awesome that I have to mention it on my blog. He just emulated Glenn Beck so well that I could very well imagine Beck saying the exact same things. It probably...

The Kepler spacecraft is supposed to continuously watch a hundred thousand stars to detect the slight dimming that would indicate the presence of a planet. The bad news is that the spacecraft has a few noisy electronic components: while Kepler should...

There’s a common saying concerning the theory of special relativity: Relativity, causality, faster-than-light: pick any two. Paraphrasing this, here is the stochastic scribble of the day concerning any god: Omnipotent, omniscient, omni-benevolent,...