For years, we’ve heard about companies developing male contraceptives. I’ve always been skeptical because I don’t think women are going to trust men just because they say they’re fixed. It’s not that the burden of contraception should only be on the woman, but the fact of the matter is that a man will do and […]
This is 12-year-old Marco Arturo at home in Mexico…
Several cities had Marches Against Monsanto last weekend, but in more than a dozen of them, they were met from people from March Against Myths, who were there to spread facts and debunk lies about GMOs. I support groups that fight back against anti-science and pseudo-science nonsense, so I invited March Against Myths co-founder and […]
I’ve had a cellphone for over two decades, and in every one of those years, I’ve read an alarmist story warning that, because we hold the devices up to our heads, we were all going to get brain cancer. There has never been peer-reviewed confirmation of those claims, despite volumes of research. The latest to […]
The Associated Press says 63% of Americans do not believe in UFOs. In reporting this at FiveThirtyEight, Walt Hickey added: Hillary Clinton is apparently not among that number, and she has promised to open up government files on UFOs if elected president. “There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting […]
I was impressed again on Friday when SpaceX launched a Japanese satellite into geosynchronous orbit and returned its booster engine to a barge floating in the ocean. That’s the second time they’ve done it in a month — more proof that Elon Musk’s team is changing the space-delivery paradigm. Phil Plait explains the difficulty of […]