• If you're of the increasingly rare human subspecies called "morning people," consider watching the predawn sky for the next few weeks. Once Mercury gets a little higher above the horizon at dawn, you'll be able to see all five naked-eye planets in a line: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter.
• Here in Arizona, I don't even have to get up early. ( Read more... )

My question posed in the previous entry (for January 6, 2007) garnered a lot more attention than I had expected, with many people weighing in on what to call the "It might be, therefore it must be" logical fallacy. Not all were serious; one wag suggested the fallacy was called "getting a ( Read more... )