Last weekend I visited the Field Museum in Chicago.  It may come as no surprise to some of you that this museum completely blew my mind.  M...

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Crap!  Here I am in the year 2010, no flying cars, no hoverboards, I am pissed!  Nobody has even levitated anything yet! J/K!  Levitation ...

I am a scientist.  Here is me pretending that life in lab is just as I had imagined it as a child...lab coat, frizzy hair, flasks of colored...

Here are some pictures of an atomic bomb exploding in space, at night.  In SPACE, at NIGHT! This is light from nuclear reactions, but not t...

I love to think about how differently we would see the universe if our sense of time were significantly altered. There are a number of ill...

The idea of introducing wild lions, elephants, and camels to north and south america was first put forward by Paul Martin of the University...