Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

This is perhaps one of the best quotes I’ve ever read — from Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King, on her mother’s condition after a stroke (emphasis mine): “We are  [more...]

This is such sad news; I can’t help but anthropomorphize these robots. NASA’s Opportunity rover has been crippled and blinded by problems with two of its most important instruments. The agency has suspended  [more...]

I was watching a show on History Channel about engineering disasters just now; I was shocked to see that one segment was of a disaster that I actually saw in person. It was the collapse of one of the Skyline Towers  [more...]