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Astronomers have confirmed (again) that there really is indeed a super-massive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy. Synchronize your cesium clocks! The world’s official time keepers will be adding an extra “leap second” to the atomic clocks that keep “official” time at 23:59:59 UTC on December 31st. Yes, that means you get [...]

Tomorrow morning I will attend my first Vermont ACLU meeting as a member of the Board of Directors. That’s right, I’m a card-carrying member of the ACLU and I’m on their board. So far, this has benefited me by being a really good excuse to give the ACLU donation-seekers: “um, I already volunteer my time [...]

Yay! Gravity Lens is back!

Cory Doctorow linked to Emily’s dissected frog after Neat-o-rama linked to it and now, famed biology blogger, PZ Myers, has blogged the frog (UPDATE: well, technically, he blogged about her dissected rat, but that doesn’t rhyme)! Myers is the blogger who was kicked out of the screening of Expelled back in March (but they didn’t [...]

I don’t normally link to the often-brilliant XKCD strip because all of the other, cooler bloggers get to it before I do.  I’m linking to this one though because of its extra awesome-osity.  It’s too big to show you the whole thing in this post, but here’s a detail…

Let’s talk global climate change for a minute. The dangerous lack of critical thinking skills in the general populace coupled with our inherent skepticism of anyone with an “agenda” is killing us. Recently an event was reported in the arctic ocean that could signal a worst-case-scenario of global warming. Specifically, scientists believe that the permafrost [...]

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? How can we tell? Also, check out these live webcams. Look at the center of the collider in the top image. It’s hard to tell the scale of it without considering what a person would look like on one of those gantries. Thanks to everyone in [...]