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To all of my fantastic readers, and you all are fantastic, I want to thank you for all of your support, your questions, your comments, and the information you've helped bring to the world during our time together here at startswithabang.com! Our new site is up and live over at Scienceblogs, ...
Well, it's happening this week, folks! I'm going to make the move over to ScienceBlogs this week, and I will have a special good-bye video post this Wednesday. In the meantime, to help you cope with your sadness, Ian O'Neill at AstroEngine has this week's Carnival of Space, and I ...
So, to send a crew to Mars (round-trip), you need them to commit to being completely isolated, with only sporadic communication with Earth, for two years at minimum! And that's assuming you take the minimum time to get there and back, which means you're only on the surface for ...
There was a question on the straight dope message board today that was way too interesting for me to pass up. But it took a long time to crunch the numbers for it, so this post is late! Someone named Richard Parker wants to know whether he should get married... ...
As many of you have heard, NASA has had a public vote to help name the new node of the International Space Station -- node 3 -- shown here in its full glory: Although the name Serenity for the new node got 70% of the vote on the NASA site, that's ...
When we look out at galaxies, we find the most energetic particles we've ever found anywhere in the Universe coming from their centers. Why? Because as far as we can tell, all galaxies, at their centers, have huge, supermassive black holes...
This Australian "mammal" is one of the most bizarre creatures on Earth, having many of the characteristics usually reserved for either birds only or mammals only: Ladies and gentlemen, the duck-billed platypus! Its most notable features are as follows: 1. It lays eggs...
There are a lot of people reporting, right now, on the new memo that President Obama has just signed about science, stem cell research, and his administration's policy: Obama said scientific decisions should be based on facts, not ideology...
Henry Rollins. Liar. Beavis and Butthead. And thanks to the power of youtube, I present, for your viewing pleasure: Has missing the point of everything ever been so entertaining as when these guys do it? Thank you Mike Judge, for Office Space, for King of the Hill, ...
I was going to write about something else today, but when I saw this story, I simply couldn't resist. Apparently, the Illinois state legislature not only declared that Pluto is a planet like the other eight: They also declared that March 13, 2009 is going to be the very first ...
This morning, I was driving to work and the song Such Great Heights by Iron and Wine came on my iPod; click the play button below to listen while you read. But I was listening to the lyrics, and one line from the chorus has been haunting me all day: They will ...
Sometimes, when I come home from a long day at work and need to unwind, I start reading BBC News, and occasionally the news archives are more interesting than the actual present news. Last night, I came across a really interesting read from 2005, about Project Paperclip, which was the US ...
One of the beautiful things about facebook is reuniting and catching up with old friends that you haven't seen in a very long time. Caroline was one of those people for me, someone I knew in high school and thought was awesome, and just lost touch with when we ...
I haven't read comic books regularly since I was about 14. The idea of superheroes always intrigued me, for the simple reason that the problems we face in ordinary life often seem very taxing for us ordinary people to deal with. I always liked heroes with great power, ...
I've been interested in the planet Jupiter ever since I was told, as a little boy, that it was the place I needed to go. Although, come to think of it, I was lumped in with all boys, and told that we "go to Jupiter to get more stupider," ...
