Why Go Back to the Moon When We Already Crashed into Its Eye in George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon”?
Are our resources best used on returning to the moon, a place explored over 120 years ago by a team of astronomers with huge beards and wizard hats?
Tag: Science
Finally, a Harmless Alternative to Jurassic Park
Instead of the dangerous, unethical practice of cloning once-extinct dinosaurs, our exhibits are human clones who pretend to be dinosaurs.
Ten Other Studies ExxonMobil Conducted but Conveniently Didn’t Tell Us About
The study ended after the cone of peach ripple divorced its husband on the grounds that he was having an affair with a strawberry cheesecake.
A Layman’s Guide to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Relativity is abstract, I know. Let’s give it some specificity, to see if we can make it more accessible for you.
In Our Defense, When We Started Naming the Layers of the Ocean, We Didn’t Know How Much There Was
Wow, coral, fish, AND crabs—sounds biodiverse as hell. Whatcha gonna call it? The… “sunlight zone”?
Notable Events from NASA’s Early Space Program
1851: As railroads begin crisscrossing the nation, NASA constructs its own line of over 300 feet of railroad track going straight upward.
I Used to Be on the Left; Then They Laughed at My Forbidden Experiments
People I trusted to think through issues started quoting slogans I didn’t understand. “The dead are better off remaining dead,” they would say.
I’m a Climate Scientist, and We’re Running Dangerously Low on IP
I do not rattle off these projections to inspire fear in the public. But we can no longer expect that IP extracted through traditional processes.
I Bring a Warning from the Future and My Lack of Pants Should Be Irrelevant
Oh. You're hung up on the "no pants" thing. Uh, look, time travel is an imprecise science.
So Who’s the Real Monster in All This?
Who is the real monster here? The tentacled creature lurking in the vapor outside… or were you all the real monster this whole time?
Welcome to Presidential Park, Where, Thanks to Our Dubious Understanding of Scientific Ethics, American History Comes to Life
Presidents are coming along nicely. I watched as a tiny Grover Cleveland push, push, pushed his way out of a synthetic eggshell.
I’m Victor Frankenstein, and I’m Pretty Sure I’m Nailing This Humanoid Reanimation Project
I'm advancing science entire centuries without bumping into any serious questions of morality and ethics. How unbelievable is that?