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Interview: Brian Vastag

Brian Vastag is a science reporter at The Washington Post, where he covers general science, the environment, climate change, and space. Vastag covered the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown for the Post, penning six front-page stories during the height of the … Continue reading

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Interview: Gary Taubes

Gary Taubes  is the author of Nobel Dreams (1987), Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (1993), Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), and Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2010). He studied applied … Continue reading

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My new blogging venture

I am thrilled and honored to be joining an esteemed group of science writers on the Last Word on Nothing blog. The blog features a new post every week day. Cassandra Willyard was kind enough to write an introduction. I’ll … Continue reading

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Grief, again.

Our neighborhood lost a great man this week. Up until a few months ago, Mack Gorrod  was still rising early every morning to feed his cows. Whenever we had a big snow storm, he would drive his tractor over to … Continue reading

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