Nagin Cox is a spacecraft engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she works on the rovers NASA has on Mars. Because that planet’s day is 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, she had to adjust everything about her life to keep up…
Well, that solar eclipse was absolutely beautiful, a sight unlike anything I’ve ever seen (nor will again, in all likelihood). Fortunately, the skies over St. Louis cleared enough to give us a perfect view of the sun behind the moon. It was breathtaking and fully lived up to its natural promise. Meanwhile, in Washington, the […]
The St. Louis Ethical Society has released the audio of the Fake News speech I gave on July 16th, and has given me permission to post it on this site and as a podcast. Listen to the audio or if you prefer to read the speech, there’s a written transcript here.
This report from NFL.com a couple of days ago caught my eye. It’s about a man who was fired from his job for being accused of a crime he didn’t commit… Lucky Whitehead didn’t do it. One day after the wide receiver was informed he had been cut by the Cowboys for facing misdemeanor petty […]
After a successful 26-episode run of the first season of “Adam Ruins Everything,” Adam Conover returned to my show to discuss the upcoming second season, which premieres on TruTV on July 11th. We talked about what he’ll take on this year, whether he’ll be ruining the Emmy Awards, and which issues he purposely stays away […]
Here’s my conversation with Alan Alda, who you may know from his 11 years on “M*A*S*H,” or his 11 years on “Scientific American Frontiers,” or his movies “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” and “Sweet Liberty,” or his Oscar-nominated role in “The Aviator.” He now runs the Alan Alda Center For Communicating Science at Stony Brook […]