Q & A: How long would we have if the Sun went out?

How long would we have if the Sun “went out” today?  Well, Starts with a Bang, the science blog, covers this… And they even figured a way to bring the Incredible Hulk into the question…. Q & A: How long would we have if the Sun went out? : Starts With A Bang.

Anatomy of a Wikipedia HOAX….

A couple months ago, I introduced you to the Wikipedia article (now yanked) on Orange Julius namesake Julius Freed, which is full of all kinds of crazy trivia, like the fact that he invented a shower stall for pigeons. I was mostly interested in the article because (a) it had sat unchanged on Wikipedia for five years, and […]

Attack of the Robot Wil Wheaton’s

Amy Okuda (“The Guild”) flies to Saturn to observe a new giant ring around the planet: the largest ring ever discovered in our Solar System, but one that was only recently revealed through infrared observations by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2009. While there, she and Irwin — voiced by Wil Wheaton (“Star Trek: the […]