Science 
Did the American Physical Society reverse its stance on global warming?(1)
The right wing blogosphere has been all atwitter the past couple of days over a blog post by Michael Asher at DailyTech alleging that the American Physical Society (APS) had reversed its previous position that human activity was fueling global warming. If that were true we should all sit up and take notice, except that’s not what really happened.
Send your name to the moon
While it’s highly unlikely any of us will actually travel to the moon, you can send your name there aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The LRO is being sent to orbit the moon to scout for landing sites, potential resources, measure radiation levels and demonstrate new technology. NASA is collecting names which will be placed [...]
Ignorance is nonpartisan
Phil over at the Bad Astronomy Blog notes an interesting Gallup poll that asked participants whether they believed:
that God created humans exactly as they are now sometime in the last ten centuries,
or that humans developed over millions of years but with guidance from God,
or that humans developed over millions of years and God had no [...]
Moondust Memories
If you don’t read NASA Science News regularly, then you’re missing out. Sure, they routinely post the same old recycled astronomy content about eclipses, equinoxes and such but it is a daily thing and that’s got to be hard to find new stuff all the time. Goodness knows I’m sure not able to do that. [...]