It's recently hit the news that there is a 13th astrological sign Ophiuchus.  Furthermore, all other signs have been shifted by about a...

A friend pointed me to an article in New Scientist , " Why we shouldn't release all we know about the cosmos ". The article s...

Everyone is asking me, "Hey mr. miller, what crazy things are you doing this summer?" Well, as I've already let slip , I...

Around this time is when you start to hear about everyone else's exciting plans for the summer. Hey, wait, I have one of those too! I ...

 [Note: This is not an original image, but the website I was crediting now appears defunct] Last year , I explained how, exactly, axial til...

I've got a bunch of links here: sounds generated from scientific data from space! I have a long explanation afterwards, but first take ...

See Part 1 When we last stopped, I had shown that electrons move along magnetic field lines. But if they simply follow the magnetic field l...

An electron is simply a very light particle with a negative charge. Usually, they're paired up with atoms, and they give us the full ra...

Today, the asteroid called 2007 TU24 narrowly missed us. By "narrow," I mean about 85 earth radii--1.4 times the distance of the ...

The earth rotates. It has an angular momentum in the direction from the south pole to the north pole. This axis of rotation, as I explaine...

[Added 2012: this picture does not belong to me, but the source website went defunct at some point]   This picture has been going around...