With a meteor crashing into Russia and an asteroid coming within 17,000 miles of Earth, I asked Phil Plait to join me today on KTRS to explain the last 24 hours of astronomical headlines. Phil writes the Bad Astronomy column for Slate, and his book “Death From The Skies” starts with a chapter all about […]
Here’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen in awhile, particularly for someone who’s been a fan of the manned space program since its inception. This is Suni Williams, who holds the record for longest space flight by a woman, and was most recently commander of the International Space Station crew that returned to Earth […]
Once again, fear-mongering by anti-vaccination liars has been proven untrue by a new study shows that, despite their evidence-free warnings, the HPV vaccine does not make teenage girls promiscuous.
Here’s my conversation with astronaut Mark Kelly, commander of the Endeavour space shuttle missions, husband of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and author of the children’s book, “Moustronaut.” We talked about Mark and Gabby watching the Endeavour fly overhead on its way to the museum where it will be exhibited and her recitation of the Pledge […]
Todd Akin is the conservative Missouri congressman nominated by the GOP to run against the incumbent, Democrat Clair McCaskill. Akin is an extreme abortion foe, who last year was one of the House Republicans who voted for a bill (co-sponsored by Paul Ryan) that would allow federal funds to be used for an abortion only […]
Dr. Sally Ride became an American hero as the first American woman in space in 1983. After two shuttle trips and eight years with NASA, she returned to academia as a physicist and for several years concentrated on climate change. She was a role model for thousands of American girls (and boys), encouraging them to […]