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Uplift your weekend with reviews of two nuclear war books, one by me and one by Annie Jacobsen. nytimes.com/2024/03/24/boo…

We're officially two months away from the release of my book. June 3rd. You want answers? Be careful what you wish for... global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Thanks to LA Times Festival of Books for asking Annie Jacobsen, Shannon Cram, and me to do a panel about nuclear weapons. And thanks to Margot Roosevelt for moderating. Hope we didn't scare everybody too much.

I have not been on here much lately, but I thought you might want an update on what some members of my household got up to tonight

Much ado about nuclear waste. undark.org/2024/07/10/rad…

I wrote about the NASA astronauts who flew to the ISS on Boeing (yes, they're still up there) and why NASA must be even more transparent about what's going on theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Otter transcription service caught me talking to my dogs before anyone else got on the Zoom call.

Met a guy who crawled to a cave in a sewer system and took its temperature. atlasobscura.com/articles/heat-…

Pack journalism helped create UFOs--and this UFO celebrity. spytalk.co/p/star-drek-uf…

NASA had spent more than $5 billion on Europa Clipper — a spacecraft as big as a basketball court with its solar arrays extended — to help scientists determine the potential habitability of Jupiter’s moon. But a potentially fatal flaw was discovered. nyti.ms/3XNGScT

Why are we so silent about the most obvious threat to human civilization? Sarah Scoles shares her big ideas. #war #nuclear bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com/p/the-doomsday…

"Just be­­cause you ran the Olympic marathon 50 years ago, doesn’t mean you could do it again tomorrow." Why it's so hard for the US to get back to the moon, via Sarah Scoles. scientificamerican.com/article/why-is…

Go eat rocks. nytimes.com/2024/10/03/sci…

🧵 1/8 Search and rescue (SAR) operations are critical for locating lost individuals, but the methods used are evolving. Recent research highlights the importance of understanding human behavior and terrain in these life-saving efforts. 🔗: undark.org/2024/01/22/sci…

How can we interpret signals from extraterrestrials when we struggle to communicate amongst ourselves? Rebecca Charbonneau's new book, which delves into how the Cold War forged radio astronomy as we know it, is out now!

Congratulations to Sarah Scoles, winner of this year's Science Journalist: Freelancer prize from SciComm Excellence. 🏆#SciComm Check out one of her winning stories exploring experiments in U.S. nuclear weapons labs. ⬇️ bit.ly/3Uo4p1D