Here is another off the wall blog. You won’t find any physics in here… Is GenY lost? In a recent NYT article, Todd G. Buchholz and […]

I’ve been thinking about how to make a powerful weapon based on a relatively weak light transmitter which can be tuned in frequency. This could be […]

You’ve probably heard the word “photon” before, as in “photon torpedoes” popularized in the original Star Trek. “Photons” are what physicists call “light” or electromagnetic radiation, […]

This is part 3 and final installment in the Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter blog. Please read parts 1 and 2 for context. In part 2 I […]

This blog extends part 1 of a blog with the same title, and is followed by part 3. Albeit imperfect, the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence […]

Ha ha! The title should garner angry crowds bearing sharpened spoons*, chanting before my office window in Mountain View. *Because spoons are the only tools their […]

Consider this post, which firmly states that proto-Earth Kepler 186-f has a 50% chance of harboring technologically equipped intelligent life: http://www.science20.com/quantum_gravity/blog/a_better_than_5050_chance_kepler186f_has_technological_life-134555 Although about science, this blog […]

Why is the universe so homogenous? It should be a lot more clumpy. Right after the Big Bang, the universe was still quite small and all […]

Today I have a social issue on my mind. Did you know that in California it is illegal for workers at orphanages to hug the children? […]

There are good reasons that almost everything we know about the distant universe came to us through measurements of light (electromagnetic radiation). Since light was present […]

Sometime back, professional photographer Ron Barrett spent the day at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory (site of the Allen Telescope Array) and worked up a beautiful […]

It has been almost a week, but I’m still high on my trip to AbSciCon (Astrobiology Science Conference), in Atlanta, GA. Funded by NASA, AbSciCon is […]