This month we explore why science is like an elephant. Remember the story of five blind people each trying to describe an elephant by just touching one part of the […]
Modern farming practices are ruining the land. The great grass prairie of the central United States was destroyed by plowing and monoculture in the nineteenth century. Clearcutting and intentional wildfires […]
It’s October and time again for my annual column where science meets Halloween. That was my goal when I began this column, however the link proved tenuous. I’ll give you […]
When I was a kid in the 1950s, my dad was active in the East Bay Astronomical Society. Every month the society held a meeting at Chabot Observatory and I […]