Category: Smithsonian Magazine
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Carl Sagan, nuclear winter, and the “climate wars”
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! If you like my writing and want to support it, please donate to my Patreon. ] When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter Before the official report came…
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Evolution, entropy, and beards
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The Hidden Connections Between Darwin and the Physicist Who Championed Entropy These magnificently bearded men both introduced a dose of randomness and irreversibility into the universe For Smithsonian Magazine:…
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Finding all the matter in the cosmos — even the invisible stuff
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] “Weak Lensing” Helps Astronomers Map the Mass of the Universe By making galaxies a little bit brighter, it points the way to elusive galaxies and lets us detect that…
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