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A Year of Wild Things — Orcas, Alligators, Caterpillars, Lizards, and More!
The Wild Things column in the magazine is, by far, the most fun part to work on
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Eight Great Science Stories From the Magazine in 2008
The week before the new year is a time for reflection, right? And so I though I would share my favorite stories from the magazine
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Picture of the Week—Christmas Tree Cluster
If it is clear out tonight, grab your binoculars or a telescope and look up at the constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn
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Spiders Are Not As Old As We Thought
The oldest fossil spider was thought to be Attercopus fimbriunguis, which lived around 386 million years ago
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Missing: Arctic Rubber Duckies
Missing: 90 yellow rubber duckies dropped into a moulin (a tubular hole) in a melting Greenland glacier approximately three months ago
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Clean Coal Advice From Doctor Who
We have gotten conflicting information on clean coal—that mythic technology that would let us burn all the coal we want without any carbon emissions
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Picture of the Week—Jupiter and Ganymede
How far we have come from 1609, when Galileo Galilei first aimed his telescope towards the little twinkly dots in the sky and saw stars and planets
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Lessons in Space Exploration From Lewis and Clark
The similarities between the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803 to 1806 and a manned mission to Mars are not immediately obvious
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What Would YOU Do With a Fusion Bomb?
Smithsonian’s blogging chief Laura Helmuth has a question for the readers of this blog, inspired by Charles Seife’s latest book
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The Language of Drunkenness
How often do you get drunk? Intoxicated? Inebriated? Tanked? Hammered? Wasted? Plastered? Sloshed? Tipsy? Buzzed?
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