Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

This is not a new topic for me (or anyone who dabbles in cryptozoology) but it came to my attention when a thread began in the FaceBook grou...

Wherever you are, whatever you believe, this is the greatest poem ever written about looking to the New Year with hope. In Memoriam ...

Invasive Species Joseph Wallace Berkley, 2013 Joseph Wallace has done everything right in this thriller: good characters, a killer prem...

Loren Coleman, indefatiguable chronicler of cryptozoology, has published his accounts of significant deaths in the field in 2013, his nomina...

First, we have four small mammals from Africa - the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to be exact. From one forest we have two new shrews an...

OK, maybe the most exciting era of space exploration - when humans stepped on the Moon -is long past.  But what's going on right now is ...

Some moron killed a Florida panther , which is not only illegal but a very big deal when there may only be a hundred of them (and there were...

We haven't found any new large land mammals for several years. We have found birds, sharks, dolphins, and other "major" animal...

There are a couple of marine conservation success stories to tout - proof that humans CAN get it right when they come together. Thirty year...

Cryptic species (not to be confused with cryptids) are animals that look very similar but are different species.  This was often impossible ...

SpaceX was ready for a milestone , its first launch from Florida and its first commercial launch to geosynchronous orbit (GEO) on its once-f...

The world's most famous "missing" bird is the ivory-billed woodpecker, but there are many species in the same boat (nest?)  Th...

Whales, Dolphins, and Other Marine Mammals of the World (Princeton Field Guides)                                               ...

All Yesterdays  - Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals Lulu.com, 2012 This slender book will show yo...

Last night, an American Minotaur 1 carried 29 satellites, almost of them the tiny type called CubeSats, into orbit.  Today, a Russian Dneper...

Readers will know I take a major interest in the potential of miniaturized satellites, called microsats, nanosats, or picosats depending on ...

The lastest (and, given cuts to Planetary Exploration, one of the last firmly scheduled) of America's Mars missions is due to launch in ...

The Devonian period, sometimes known as the "Age of Fishes," might be defined as the "Age of Sorting Out," as the countl...

My friend Shannon Bohle has pointed out something in her blog I hadn't thought about. While I deplored the loss of penmanship in school...

I finally saw Gravity . It gets a middling grade at best on physics and orbital mechanics, but A's for Sandra's performance, for t...