Science reporting relevant to current events with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area
14 July 2025 Hello again, supporter of science,Üdvözlet ismét, tudománypárti!,[Over 5,000 people in the Bay Area speak Hungarian at home.] Show your support for science this Thursday (July 17) by joining one of the hundreds of “Good Trouble Lives On” protests. Thursday is the 5th anniversary of the passing of civil rights leader and Congressman … Read more
7 July 2025 Unwilling to stay silent, 139 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency signed a letter listing 5 criticisms of Administrator Lee Zeldin’s actions: The EPA’s response was to suspend the signers and falsely denigrate them as “career bureaucrats unlawfully undermining, sabotaging, and undercutting the administration’s agenda as voted for by the great people … Read more
23 June 2025 Hello again, follower of science and reason, Over 50,000 people in the Bay Area speak Persian at home. The Persian holiday of Eid al-Ghadir is the time for being kind to people in need, making donations, and giving gifts to one another. (Sorta like Christmas) It fell on June 14th this year … Read more
2 June 2025 Hello again, science fans. Glad to have you along with us today.Hallo nomal, Wüsseschaftsfans. Schön, dass si hüt bi ois sind.[Schwyzerdütsch is a Swiss-German dialect] CLIMATE A large portion of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland broke free on Wednesday. Nine million tonnes of ice and granite plunged into the Lötschental valley destroying most of … Read more
5 May 2025 Hello again, science fans. Glad to have you along with us today.Знову вітаю, шанувальники науки. Раді, що ви сьогодні з нами.[Ukrainian] May is here and the hills and fields are abloom in Scotch Broom, California Poppies, Lupines, Mustard, Wild Peas, Fiddlenecks, Tidy Tips, and more. When i suggest you “take a hike,” … Read more
27 April 2025 Hello again, science fans. Glad to have you along with us today. Hola tu ka’atéen, aficionados ti’ le ciencia. ki’imak in wóol in yantal ta wéetel bejla’e’.[Yucatec Maya] The Trump Administration shut down over 1,400 scientific medical research projects and public health programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. They … Read more
7 April 2025 Hello again science fans, Lumelang hape barati ba mahlale,[Sesotho is the language of Basotho who live in Lesotho, “which nobody has ever heard of” and whose imports now have a 50% tariff, the highest of any country.] SCIENCE More than a million people participated in over 1400 “Hands Off” protests Saturday. I … Read more
31 March 2025 Hello again, science fans, Di nuovo ciao a tutti, appassionati di scienza,[About 85,000 Bay Area residents speak Italian at home.] SPACE “Fram2” is a 4-person space mission scheduled for this week. It is funded by one of the crew, a Chinese billionaire, Chun Wang (王春). He will be flying as a citizen … Read more
3 March 2025 Hello again, fans of science,“nuqneH, QeD parmaq,” (I found no data on how many Klingons are in the Bay Area.) Find a “Stand Up for Science” gathering that’s accessible for you. Go with or without a sign. Go with or without a costume. Go with or without your family and friends. But go. … Read more
3 February 2025 Hello again science fans!科学ファンの皆さん、こんにちは！(The first Japanese immigrants arrived in the Bay Area in 1869. Today about 20,000 Bay Area residents speak Japanese at home.) SPACE The OSIRIS-REx Mission collected 120 grams (4 oz) of regolith (broken rock & dust) from the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returned the sample to Earth in 2023. Just … Read more