The Helix nebula as seen by NASA's Spitzer Telescope. Click image for top ten Spitzer images at Nat'l Geo
NASA has released the top ten images taken by the Spitzer telescope, and the same instrument has observed light across 41 light-years from a exo-planetary super-earth for the first time: [Read more…]
Click image for more info and to order "Equality" bumpersticker
Via TPM: 1) the Log Cabin Republicans, gay conservatives, sort of the Clayton Bigsby of equal rights. 2) Follow the money, as in ““God is the author of marriage, and we will not let an activist politician like Barack Obama who is beholden to gay marriage activists for …”. And last and arguably the least, the Fox News/Limbaugh axis of evil, “War On Marriage!”
This is a knife fight in a telephone booth over marriage rights along with women’s rights, minority rights, the 99% vs the masters of the universe, education, Social Security & Medicare, tax rates, defense, child care, and just about any other issue you can imagine where conservative zillionaires see a chance of ripping off and disenfranchising the rest of us. Choose wisely my friends.
It’s always a gray margin between rightly criticizing someone on “our team” and providing fodder for the other jokers to use. See Gingrich, Newt, for an example of how that works and how effective it can be. Nevertheless, I was hesitant to write anything that might have resulted in a flame war below — between people who agree on most everything and need one another’s support to win in 2012 — but my fellow blogger in disgust-at-conservatives John Cole saved me: [Read more…]
Not exactly the finest moment in democracy, but certainly not the worst, and Romney’s contortions on the autobailout are damn funny.
Gilead Sciences (GLD) has a new pill that can be used by peole who are HIV negative to ward off the virus that causes AIDS. But there’s a catch: big time sticker shock.
Here’s two examples of not just how far gone the average wingnut has become, but how they got there. First, the obligatory whopper: [Read more…]
New research on horse genomes indicates the domestic verison may have originated in the Russian Ukraine and spread from there, with lots of interbreeidng with wild horses along the way: [Read more…]
I usually avoid so-called presidential debates. But it will be interesting to see Mitt Romney debate Mitt Romney this fall. There are clear contrasts between the two candidates on important issues. Here’s just one good example: [Read more…]
I see the Beltway has their feinting couches (And I mean feint) and smelling salts at the ready, always important should they need to be revived after passing out at the latest manufactured crisis that’s all the right-wing rage today. Concern trolling on gay marriage was going gangbusters among the Morning Joe gang, especially with GOP Joe, but they didn’t invent the genre or create this particular iteration of it. [Read more…]
An artist's depiction of a hot Jupiter, click image for more info at wikipedia
If alien solar systems have giant planets that migrate in close to their star, there won’t be any earthlike planets farther out. At least that’s what a new survey of exosolar systems suggests: [Read more…]