Here is a cool video with some facts about our galaxy
The Overview Effect
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for […]
Bill Passes Arizona Senate: Raises serious concerns about fi...
If you believe in the right to organize in peaceful protest like we do here at SLM, you understand that no movement is supposed to be defined by it’s bad apples.
What is Herd Immunity, and how does it work?
You may have heard the term ‘Herd immunity’, and how it prevents outbreaks of diseases depending on how large percentage of a population is vaccinated against said diseases. But what is it? And how does it work? The short answer, the fewer potential hosts for the bacteria or virus to spread to, the harder it […]
Wise Words By Carl Sagan About Scientific Literacy
Carl Sagan the astronomer known for being probably the worlds best science popularizer had as you might expect quite a lot to say about the issue of scientific literacy. In fact the book Demon Haunted World is almost exclusively about scientific literacy and the issue of pseudoscience and why we believe in it. I have […]
Internet Censorship Just Became Legal In Sweden
The Patent and Market Court in Sweden has just made a ruling that a Swedish internet provider (ISP) has to completely block two filesharing websites. This may seem innocent enough, after all they are just trying to prevent the theft of intellectual property, right? However a few things about this ruling are particularly strange, and […]
Just a few thoughts about ET
Sci-Fi writers have convinced us that space creatures probably look somewhat like us, howbeit with a green complexion. But thinking ET’s are human-like is conceitedly anthropocentric to say the least. Not only is it quite possible that ET’s look nothing like us, but their metabolism might be based, not on carbon biochemistry like ours, but […]
Why I’m raising money to march for science
When I was a student in 1st grade I avidly read 20-page books about very typical young kid things like football teams. But when I stumbled upon detailed scientific picture books, I found myself checking out the books about volcanoes and tornadoes and hurricanes and dinosaurs too. These things had me interested in learning about […]
What exactly is the Milky Way?
On a clear, moonless night, far away from the lights of a city, the Milky Way is visible as that majestic, hazy swath of star light, that spans a large portion of the sky. So much for a rather cursory description. That’s what it looks like. But, specifically, what constitutes the Milky Way? The Milky […]
NOT TOO HOT…NOT TOO COLD…But what about that UV?
For decades now it’s been accepted that for life to exist on other planets, those worlds would have to be just the right distance from their parent star, the “right distance” defined as the Goldilocks zone. Here, liquid water, an essential player in the creation of life, would be able to exist. But there’s another […]