Follow the Star
In Peter Pan, Wendy and Peter navigate to Neverland by following the “second star to the right and straight on till morning.” If all problems of navigation were so simple! […]
Category: Hypothesis
The Pendulum Swings
When I was a kid my Dad took me to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. This is a natural history museum and it had the first planetarium […]
Webs of Steel
In the TV series, The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon and Leonard, who have PhD’s in physics, are always making fun of Howard who is an engineer. They insist that Howard […]
To Quote or Not to Quote
I’m going to depart from science in today’s column to talk a bit about the ethics of blogging. This article is officially a blog. A blog is not a refereed […]