What a week for noble births! Last Thursday marked the 200th birthdays for both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, and today marks the 445th year since the Feb. 15, 1564 birth of Galileo Galilei, the inventor of the telescope, whose controversial astronomy views landed him on house arrest for the final 19 years of his life. Galileo, a devout Catholic, ran into [...]
 Two teams with United States participation are angling to build the next-generation telescope, which will peer at the very edges of the universe, into galaxies that were created immediately after the Big Bang. And as a citizen of a country that’s learning how to tighten its belt, I’m going to suggest they get together [...]
This book review of The Hunt for Planet X, by Govert Schilling, appears in slightly different form in the Arizona Daily Sun. Even though I wrote it, it remains under copyright with the paper for two months. I reprint it here with permission, thanks to the editor, Randy Wilson. Â The Hunt for Planet X [...]