This post was published on Medium. Launch of Artemis II (April 1, 2026). If you view it on Youtube you can use the view tools in upper left (or just move your cursor around) to keep the rocket in the frame as it rises. With all the issues going on around us in the world, […]
Read the original post here from June, 2019 This post was published on Medium. Uncovering the Truth Behind William Happer and the “More CO2 is Better” Claim You’ve probably heard that the Trump Administration seeks to rescind the EPA’s “Endangerment Finding” that global warming poses a threat to “the public health and welfare of current […]
This post was published on Medium. Ronald Reagan: “Respect for human rights is essential to true peace on Earth. Governments that must answer to their peoples do not launch wars of aggression. That’s why the American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary […]
From elementary school kids to senior citizens, the Event Horizon Telescope image is almost immediately recognized as a black hole. But why should you care? Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration This picture, released in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope Project, has already become one of the most recognized images in the world. But what […]
Please also see this post as published on Medium. Imagine you could send a single short message through time to anyone who has ever lived, telling them one modern fact that would give them hope for the future of humanity. What message would you send? I don’t think you could find anything more powerful than […]
Read Sept 2025 update here This post was published on Medium. If you follow news about climate science and politics, you’ve probably heard of William Happer, who is one of the forces behind the Trump Administrations plans to go forward with a panel to “investigate” whether global warming really poses the threats claimed by most […]
This post also appears on my Huffington Post blog page. I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017. That eclipse may be history, but the experience can continue. Here’s my list of the three most important things you can do in order to keep the experience going. […]
This post also appears on my Huffington Post blog page. Here’s Your Eclipse Q & A On August 21, 2017, we’ll have the first total solar eclipse to touch the continental United States in almost 40 years. To help you prepare for the eclipse, I’ve teamed up with eclipse expert Xavier Jubier and Germinate LLC […]
The following article was posted in Foreward Reviews. Click here to read the original post, which is formatted a little nicer than reproduced below. At the end of The Wizard Who Saved the World, says author Jeffrey Bennett, we want kids to leave any school discussion of global warming with the belief that they, too, […]
I’m soon to be attending my 40th high school reunion, and found myself feeling a bit down. Forty years is a long time, and I’m sure that anyone else of similar age knows that at this point, it’s easy to think that our best days are behind us. We look back at the promise that […]
high school reunion, relativity, second life, the cosmic perspective