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Feb 12, 2025
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
Our first “Earth-like” exoplanets probably won’t have atmospheresSeeking life beyond the Solar System, we first look to the closest star systems with Earth-like planets. Here’s why that’s not good enough.
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Gideon M-K; Health Nerd
The Problem With VaccinesWhen a public health intervention is literally too good.
Feb 12
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
How the Moon’s two Grand Canyons formed in mere minutesOur Moon is full of craters, basins, and ancient lava flows. But two large lunar Grand Canyons have the same origin: a single, giant…
Feb 11
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Age of Empathy
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Anne Spollen
Sports-Impaired in America — A Brief History of Life on the BenchIn the menu of life, sports are not for everyone
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
Meet N79: home to the Local Group’s newest super star clusterThere are only four super star clusters in all the Local Group: rarities today. Here’s what the youngest, the just-discovered N79, shows…
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A Teaching on Consciousness, or Your Life in an Age of CollapseI’m going to cross-post from my new place, the issue, for a while. These are difficult and frightening times. We need to come together…
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Counter Arts
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Marc Barham
Two Great Narratives Of ReentryRevolution, Revenge And Redemption
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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer
Surviving a Government That’s Fucking Failing Its PeopleHow to Be Mouthy and Covert at the Same Damn Time
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Wise & Well
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The Conversation U.S.
Fake Scientific Papers Contaminate Legitimate Scholarly OutputSham journals publish bogus studies that cloud and delay publication of real science on lifesaving treatments
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
Ask Ethan: Why doesn’t dark matter collapse due to gravity?Here in our Universe, both normal and dark matter can be measured astrophysically. But only normal matter can collapse. Why is that?
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
Government-censored science ruined the USSR. Is the USA next?With a flurry of threats to scientists, science funding, and health policy, the USA now faces a crisis reminiscent of Soviet-era…
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
JWST shocks the world with colliding neutron star discoveryFrom LIGO, there weren’t enough neutron star-neutron star mergers to account for our heavy elements. With a JWST surprise, maybe they can.
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Carlyn Beccia
The SAVE Act Will Prevent One-Third of Women From VotingAnd yet, no one is talking about it.
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Let There Be Prompt
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Aivaras A Grauzinis
You Have Mastered Midjourney. Now What?And some good ideas on what to do with your art
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Let There Be Prompt
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Aivaras A Grauzinis
Midjourney, Hopeless Experiments, and Great OutcomesThere are those days when nothing seems to work. I suppose muses need some days off too. So I was sitting there, a half-finished article on…
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The Belladonna Comedy
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Kara Panzer
I Vow to Destroy the Vegetarian CommunityWith this sad, wet sandwich.
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
Ask Ethan: How are the heaviest elements of all made?Matter is made up largely of atoms, where atomic nuclei can contain up to 100 protons or more. But how were the heaviest elements made?
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The Medium elephant in the room.🐘 WAZZUP with Medium?Is Medium in trouble financially?🐘I had so many questions!
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
How does cosmic inflation fare when put to the ultimate test?Cosmic inflation, proposed back in 1980, is a theory that precedes and sets up the hot Big Bang. After thorough testing, is it still valid?
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Starts With A Bang!
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Ethan Siegel
New science facilities are needed to keep America greatNew telescopes, radio dishes, and gravitational wave detectors are needed for next-generation science. Will the USA lead the way?
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