‘Dr.’ Bearden’s Vacuum Energy
One of the strangest books ever written about modern physics was published in 2002, and reprinted two years later. Titled Energy from the Vacuum (Cheniere Press), this monstrosity is two inches thick...
View ArticleMysterious Entities of the Pacific Northwest, Part I
Mankind’s imagination has always been excited by the possibilities of unknown regions. Thus, a seemingly limitless universe invites speculation about extraterrestrials; the world’s largely unexplored...
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Do They Have Your Numb3r?
CBS’s popular Friday night drama uses—surprise!—mathematics, reason, and rationality to help the FBI solve major crime mysteries. This is network television? Direct Network Flow Problem. Probabilistic...
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Carl Sagan’s Life and Legacy as Scientist, Teacher, and Skeptic
In this new remembrance of Carl Sagan, who died ten years ago, a noted planetary scientist and colleague (and former student of Sagan) recalls Sagan’s immense contributions to planetary research, the...
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