Bloody Vikings!
I’d come across a news item yesterday which irritated me — well, it’s not really new anyway, but I’ll explain.
In 1976, NASA’s Viking Project - an ambitious undertaking destined for Mars - made history when the Viking 1 and Viking 2 landers safely touched down on the Martian surface. They were the first spacecraft […]

Image Credit: NASA (GSFC)
Behold the most recent, truly sad cultural commentary…
Results have been published from the latest Roper/National Geographic survey, which tests geographic knowledge amongst young adults aged 18-24. You may (or may not) recall the findings of the 2002 survey which, among other similarly egregious tidbits, revealed that 30% of young Americans couldn’t locate […]

Sometimes, if I didn’t know better, I’d swear we were living in some bizarre dark age.
Want to be outraged? Read Phil Plait’s latest blog entry.

Remember the good old days when The Weather Channel actually devoted their airtime to their namesake?

Hurricane Rita bears down on the Gulf Coast.
Image Credit: NASA/GSFC
Enter the latest addition to the TWC lineup: It Could Happen Tomorrow.
What if a Category 3 Hurricane hit New York City? What if a major earthquake shattered San Francisco?
It Could Happen […]

Bad media alert!

Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
This press release from last week (which I posted about here) details the Hubble Telescope’s discovery of two new Uranian moons as well as a pair of newly observed rings around the distant gas giant. Unfortunately, a syndicated news story has circulated and been reproduced without […]