Author: Terrence Cons

Paul L Dineen via Flickr Baseball is a fiddly sport. There are countless arbitrary-seeming rules and odd traditions. People who are not familiar with the game sometimes find it near-impossible to understand (and, partly as a consequence, near-impossible to watch). But under the complexity is simplicity: a pitcher throwing a ball and a batter trying […]

In 2011 America’s astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, was on Real Time with Bill Maher discussing the proposed termination of NASA’s James Webb Telescope, which the House Appropriations Committee had decried as “billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management.” Tyson went on to deliver what is now one of his most famous quotes:   […]

Funding drug development for rare cancers can hurt patients.

That song stuck in your head is your brain doing its work.

Want to spin your data? Here’s how.

Folsom Lake, near Sacramento, provides a clear illustration of the extent of California’s drought. On July 20, 2011, the reservoir was at 97 percent of capacity. On January 16, 2014, it was at 17 percent, and there was no water flowing through the Folsom Dam.California Department of Water Resources via NASA   Nautilus Members enjoy […]

Seven sports that come down to how well your neurons play.

The real genius in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery is not who you think it is.

The real genius in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery is not who you think it is.

The resurrection of glass sponge reefs proves extinction doesn’t have to be eternal.