I’ve been reading a book by a well-known and successful consultant Alan Weiss (author of Million Dollar Consulting and about 30 other books), and he had an interesting anecdote regarding persistence (most likely of dubious authenticity).
As I paraprhase how Alan tells it, an organization had a sales team with one individual who, by most accounts, is a terrible salesperson.  He [...]

Here’s an article about a new International Space Station mission to look for proof of dark matter (the stuff that seems to make the universe work differently than we think it does…).  The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is scheduled to be launched from the Space Shuttle in July 2010.
You can read the extensive article here.

Moon explorer Buzz Aldrin and Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss the eightieth anniversary of Pluto’s discovery on The Takeaway.  Too bad Pluto isn’t a planet anymore (it’s now merely a dwarf planet…), but it’s still worth commemorating.
You can listen to the audio here.

In an August 2009 New York Times article, here’s what a Google mucky-muck has to say about the world of math and science:
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.”
Knowledge of statistics and, most importantly, how to exploit them will become an [...]

Here’s the link to see what features are in Apple’s newly announced iPad tablet computer.  Right now, it’s a larger version of the iPhone, but with an iBook store for buying electronic books, and 3G/WiFi access to the Internet.

OK – so this is pretty cool… 
Today it was announced that astromoners have just observed the light directly from a planet outside our solar system.  Previously, scientists have never been able to observe a planet directly (like we can in our own solar system by looking through a telescope) - only indirectly through its eclipse signatures as it moves between us [...]

Here’s an article showing pictures from the Hubble Telescope taken of the very, very early universe.  The galaxies have stars that are only about 600 million to 800 million years old – about as far back as the Hubble Telescope can see (the universe itself is about 13.7 billion years old…).

I saw this video and I thought it was pretty cool – had to forward it along…  Try some of these tricks yourself!  (I think pouring the carbon dioxide to extinguish the candles is fantastic!…)

I like hearing about new and interesting ideas within science – they help us to explain our world better…
(And now, I step on my soapbox…)  HOWEVER, I do think some ideas are just plain hooey, because they are less science and more intellectual rationalization for why we can’t explain things at the moment…
Take the Many-Worlds interpretation. 
In quantum mechanics, particles in [...]

Today, Virgin Group’s Richard Branson is unveiling his venture’s first space tourism vehicle, SpaceShipTwo.
The ship’s predecessor, SpaceShipOne, also designed by the aerospace legend Burt Rutan, won the $10 million X Prize, given to the first private spacecraft to fly into suborbital space twice within a 14 day period.
Given the winning and demonstrated design of SpaceShipOne, Branson launched Virgin Galactic to [...]