I hope Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, launched on Fox launched two weeks ago, becomes a smash hit, as much so as the 1980 version of Cosmos, hosted by astrophysicist Carl Sagan.
Posts published by “John Horgan”
We just launched a new undergraduate program in Science Communication at Stevens, and I continue agonizing over what I should teach.
There is a shamefully broad gap between the lip service that we Americans give soldiers—or “heroes,” as we love to call them—and our actual treatment of them.
The evidence keeps mounting that mammograms and other tests for cancer—which contribute significantly to the sky-high costs of U.S. health care—do not save lives.
“What does woman want?” Freud once whined. Turns out quite a few women want fantasy sex with T. rex, Sasquatch or a boar-headed god.
I am a cyberwar skeptic. When U.S. officials and defense contractors warn of the looming threat of cyberattacks from China, Iran and terrorist groups, I get suspicious.
Jared Diamond is one of the great science synthesizers and popularizers of our era, and he resists the biological determinism that infects so much modern theorizing about our species.
In 1997 a website where scientists, journalists and other eggheads—or Edgeheads—chitchat about science-related stuff called Edge.org asked me to participate in a debate about my book The End of Science.
A new year has begun, which means it’s time to brood over past failures and vow to improve ourselves: I will be less judgmental with my kids and more romantic with my girlfriend.
Over the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about how “Big Data” are going to revolutionize science and help us create a better world.