(June 20, 2024)
It's summer solstice — and therefore puzzle — time again! Here are some of the best puzzles to have come my way in the last 12 months for your...
(June 6, 2024)
"Last night." — Fictional lone genius Tony Stark answering when he became an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics If you believe everything you see on the silver screen, you know all...
(May 23, 2024)
"I knew that [mRNA] can be used for everything and I had a kind of a Cassandra feeling, that I can see the future and nobody believes me." Katalin Karikó,...
(May 9, 2024)
Last week, I presented arguments supporting the anti-Stratfordian case, that Stratford's "Shakspere" wasn't the sublime writer William Shakespeare. If the man from Stratford didn't write the Shakespearean canon, who did?...
(May 2, 2024)
"They're both bonkers!" — Stanley Wells, Britain's leading Shakespeare expert, on the opinion of preeminent Shakespearean actors Sirs Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, that the Stratford man didn't write the...
(April 25, 2024)
On April 26, 1564, 460 years ago, the baptism of one "William Shakspere" was recorded in the provincial town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. According to the conventional story, this...
(April 11, 2024)
"Thou ... madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them." — Ezekiel 16:17, KJV Along with notable human achievements such as the invention of the plow...
(March 28, 2024)
Science started around dusk on May 28, 585 B.C. Don't take my word for it, that's the opinion of the late polymath/sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. On that date, the Iranian...
(March 14, 2024)
Ingenuity, "Ginny" to its friends, will never fly again. The little Mars-based helicopter-drone landed badly on its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, damaging all four of its carbon...
(February 29, 2024)
"... at a time when our world, the real world, faces serious problems, [scientists] dwelling on multiverses strikes me as escapism — akin to billionaires fantasizing about colonizing Mars." John...
(February 15, 2024)
"The biological definition of sex wasn't designed to ensure fair sporting competition, or to settle disputes about access to healthcare." — Paul Griffiths, professor of Philosophy of Biology, University of...
(February 1, 2024)
At first blush, the number of the year we're living in, 2024, sounds pretty uninteresting. First off, it's obviously not prime (a prime number being only divisible by 1 and...
(January 18, 2024)
There are crises and crises, and unless you're an avid science buff, you may not realize that cosmologists — the few thousand researchers whose lives are dedicated to understanding the...
(January 4, 2024)
Smokers trying to quit say they feel like they're giving up a friend." Scott Leishow, professor at the College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University Even since the 1950s, when...
