Today is a crazy day. I have deadlines for the book very soon, appointments to rush to, a concert by the Little Astronomer to attend, and on top of it all two of my recent posts are getting crazy traffic (Fark picked up the Bigfoot on Mars post, and the asteroid 2007 TU24 doomcryer slapdown is getting some attention too) so I have to nurse the server through it.
In other words, I probably won’t be posting much more today. You’ll see more of me tomorrow, I hope.
Science is not for wimps (but regular readers already knew this). There are dangers lurking everywhere, even surrounding the lab. I urge all scientists and wannabes out there to watch this video and take notes.
Shameful. But Brian is a physicist, not an astronomer (though he later redeems himself). I would have grabbed the snakes and spiders, thrown them in the back of the cart, then headed on over to New Orleans to get them made into a po’ boy sandwich with mayo and a side of red beans. Yum!
Brian will be here in Boulder in April for a meeting. I better not tell him about the rattlesnakes and coyotes.
If you went to BadAstronomy.com and found yourself here, never fear: the BA Blog has moved to its new home at Discover Blogs. The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking and all that) is still online, too.
Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science.
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