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History Lessons Part I – The Last 6 Months
We’ll start our story of the Universe like any good movie director; as close to the end of the story as possible. So without further ado, let’s find some creative ways to look at what’s been going on in the … Continue reading
Perspective Check: Time For Some History Lessons
Last week’s Jurassic World-inspired post got me thinking – there is so much of history that we don’t really know. While folks already complain about the quality of history classes in public schools, at their best these cover only the last … Continue reading
Jurassic World – When Did the Dinosaurs Really Live?
The Jurassic Park franchise has long had the tagline: “An adventure 65 million years in the making.” A friend of mine recently asked: “Did the raptors really live 65 million years ago?” We commonly view “dinosaur” as a monolithic concept; … Continue reading
Welcome to Perspective Check
Welcome, everyone, to this blog’s new direction. Perhaps it’s not so much a new direction as a new realization of what this blog has always been. I had previously, somewhat unhelpfully, categorized it as “a blog about everything.” That suits … Continue reading
Project Icarus and The Tau Zero Foundation: To the Future!
It’s no secret that the greatest obstacle to colonizing the stars is distance. Living in a time when the Earth can be circled in 24 hours, the prospect of the “light year” is unthinkable to us; that unit means that … Continue reading
To the Stars!
Whenever I come back to science, I find that all roads lead me to the stars. Why? Astronomy is but one area of science–and some would call it the least relevant of the sciences to our daily lives. For how … Continue reading
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