One of my favorite XKCD comics:
Sprites, Jets, Elves, Gamma Rays and Antimatter
Update, July 15, 2018: I thought of this five-year-old post tonight when seeing this tweet: Red Sprite Lightning Taken by Paul Smith on July 14,
About Natural Disasters: Earth
We strut and fret our hour upon a stage that’s anchored to a sleeping giant with a bad case of indigestion. All may be well
Edwin L. Drake (March 29, 1819 to November 8, 1880)
Okay – Edwin Laurentine Drake was not a trained geoscientist, but he is the reason many people still choose geology as a profession. Yet, in
Guest Video: What it Would be Like to Land on Titan
The European Space Agency, NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and University of Arizona have put together this excellent simulation of a landing on Titan,
James Croll: Timing is Everything
It’s easy to tell middle and high school students that “scientists say ‘seeing is believing’” while “non-scientists say ‘believing is seeing.’” That’s not incorrect.
