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Cross posted @ the Atheist Oasis I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.” ― Phil Plait Honestly, I have to admit...

“IMAGINE A BOX OF LIGHT,” Albert Einstein told Niels Bohr in 1930, continuing their argument of 20-odd years. If we let a single photon — a particle of light — escape from that box and we clock when it left, then we’ll know the time it was emitted. If...

‘Scientists Who Made a Difference‘ series Nicholas Copernicus was an interesting renaissance man who overcame the existing paradigm placing earth in the center of the solar system to the new paradigm of a heliocentric view that earth and...

My Farewell Bye to the best (and prettiest) satellite ever. The thing about Voyager 1 is that it will never really die, mostly because it's a satellite and was never alive to begin with.  But to some of us Voyager 1 was so much more than that...

Congress got the word from NASA on Tuesday about its options for dealing with the threats posed by asteroids and comets: Lawmakers can either provide adequate funding for detecting and characterizing near-Earth objects, and diverting them if necessary...