Searching for Vulcanoid Asteroids

At at party this weekend, I met Cisco engineer Landon Curt Noll. He had a rack of three digital SLRs on a telescope mount, and was getting ready to ship his gear to China in order to observe the upcoming solar eclipse. Noll’s an amateur astronomer, and he’s searching for Vulcanoid asteroids, which, if they [...]

Michael Shermer at TED

Michael Shermer talks about crop circles, science, Galileo, Led Zepplin, and Kylie Minogue at the TED Confrence in Monterey, February of 2006. A funny, snappy introduction to skepticism.