Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

How many human species are there, anyway? New discoveries keeping adding more data and more  questions to the heap of possibilities.  Scient...

I haven't been on Dr. David Livingston's The Space Show in a little while, but I think of it very fondly. It's a long-running s...

World War II has always been one of my top historical interests.  It's hard for modern people to even understand what total war is. Whil...

I like cryptozoologists, at least in general. I like their un-killable optimism, even when it becomes unreasonable. Folks who strap on backp...

 There are two ways a species can return from extinction (bar cloning, which we will likely get to eventually).  One is to be rediscovered, ...

 Ah, an update on my favorite subject: the discovery of new species.   I just received an amazing book by David Brewer entitled Birds New to...

 Monsters & Marine Mysteries Hawthorne, Max. (2021: Far From The Tree Press, 342pp.) Hawthorne, champion sportfisherman and author o...

Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force     by David Bath (2020: Naval Institute Press, 238pp.)   ...

  Ammonite .   Sigh. Very good performances - both leads were superb - with wonderfully bleak direction/ cinematography and a compelling sen...

  Very sad news today. Michael Collins , Command Module Pilot of Apollo 11, has embarked on his last voyage of exploration. Collins, who ro...

  Maybe readers can help solve this one.  What happened to Samson the bear? Samson was a California grizzly captured as an adult in 1854 by ...

Back when I was a kid reading about sharks, there were "more than 200" living species. Then 300, then 350, and now it's over 5...

Yesterday I watched my favorite big-bug movie, "The Deadly Mantis" (with MST3K commentary). It's a decent story and well-acted...

 Well, there was a lot of hype, but in the end the much-heralded thylacine photos were not of the "Tasmanian tiger," but of a sma...

 I had a great time chatting with Doug and Joel at Untold Radio.  My brain glitched a couple of times early on, but we had a good discussion...

First, the past. A coelacanth fossil discovered by accident turns out to be amazing.  The coelacanth may be five meters long, far larger tha...

A population of Bryde's whales (pronounced, approximately, Broodus ) in the Gulf of Mexico has been determined to be a new species: ama...

 It's traffic jam month on Mars. "Hope," the first space probe built by the UAE entered Mars orbit today.  The journey of expl...

From Mongabay.com:    " Researchers studying the impact of conservation actions since the landmark 1992 Rio Earth Summit say that at le...

  Hope forAnimals and Their World : How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink Goodall, Jane, with Thane Maynard and Gail Hud...