Day 61: Meteorites, a volcano, Colbert, Creationism in Texas and my deepest sympathies …

Lest you think I’m as bad at math as I really am, let me just say I know I skipped Day 60. Day 60 is dead to me.  On Day 60, I landed at the doctor’s office again, because an infection didn’t respond to the first antibiotic — so now I’m on two. Yesterday, I [...]

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Comets in Asteroids’ Clothes

I enjoy writing about astronomy exactly for the reason I once feared it: there’s so much we don’t know. There’s rarely any shame in asking about the nature of a black hole, for example, because scientists are grappling with it too. Usually, if I get confused while writing an astronomy story, it’s because I’ve stumbled [...]

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