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If we but set our eyes on the far horizon.

Entry by Jonathan: ‎ "Out ride the sons of Terra, far drives the thundering jet, up leaps a race of Earthmen, out, far, and onward yet” -- Robert A. Heinlein “We pray for one last landing on the glob…
Speed of light, the age of the universe, and their implications.

Post by Jonathan: As a side note, I had this article pretty much finished when JT posted this, and Poosywhistle posted this ignorant screed: “The thing is, we don't know all the rules, but science works off of wh…
Half-Lives, 1st order rate laws, and how o determine the half-life of radioactive isotopes.

Post by Jonathan: Recently in the comments JT got asked about radioactive decay. He answered it pretty awesomely, but I thought it might be good to go a bit more in depth into the workings of how we determine the half…
Let the virus help us

Post by Jonathan: Wow, two posts in a day. Anyway I was flipping through back copies of the American Chemical Society trade magazine (Chemical & Engineering News) that I get as a member of the ACS, and came acro…
Precursors for life possible on Titan?

Living in Buffalo NY, just down the street from CFI as a matter of fact, I got to help out/hang out with some of the student leaders there for the CFI Student Leader Conference that JT’s been blogging about. While the…
Energy and anthropogenic climate change

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Arctic ice melting faster than previously thought

NASA Scientists discover that Antarctica is losing ice at a faster than expected pace. Antarctica is losing 189 Gigatonnes (please note: a Gigatonne is approximately 2.2 Trillion pounds) of ice melting per year. And pe…
On bacteria poop and algae...

I'd like to build on JT's earlier entry on petrol-producing bacteria. I have read a few of the papers that have been published on this in the past. It was under pretty serious investigation during the Clinton era befor…