On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.

When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.