actually no, it’s Pluto not being a planet anymore! I was in 3rd grade and my teacher was irrationally devastated

The news coverage running up to the impending vote on proposition 8 in California. It was a vote on the ballot in 2008 that would essentially ban same-sex marriage if enacted. I vividly remember the “NO ON 8" signs in peoples’ lawns on the road leading to my middle school. My 7th grade classmates and I would sometimes…

well.. even when/if other life is discovered, the equations serve no great scientific purpose. What these equations do for me is help put the scope of the universe, and our very biotic existence, into context. Saying we are lucky to be alive is a massive understatement if you consider just how big and how barren most…