Category: Scientific American
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Space barons’ dreams of space resemble nightmares
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Musk and Bezos Offer Humanity a Grim Future in Space Colonies For Scientific American: A million inhabitants live in the city under the soft pink sky of Mars, just…
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Abortion, police brutality, and the responsibility of a journalist
Why am I — science writer who mostly specializes in physics, astronomy, and a bit of math — writing an opinion piece about tear gas and abortion for Scientific American? After all, not only is this not my usual wheelhouse, I’m a cisgender man who will never be pregnant (and who never intends on getting…
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Weird X-Rays Spur Speculation about Dark Matter Detection
[ I am reviving the Bowler Hat Science blog as a quick way to link all my new publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all my stories! ] Weird X-Rays Spur Speculation about Dark Matter Detection From Scientific American: Many major discoveries in astronomy began with an unexplained signal: pulsars, quasars and…
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