Author: Michael Siegel

Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He is on Twitter, blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.

Thursday Throughput: Polio Eradication Edition

Remember, a vaccine doesn’t have to give “sterilizing immunity”, in which you can’t catch the virus ever again. If it simply builds our resistance to the virus so that COVID-19 infections are mild, that will be enough.

Biden Picks Kamala Harris

A VP pick is usually about is solidifying the base, balancing the ticket, & generating intra-party enthusiasm. Harris will do that just fine

Always at the Abyss

This reluctance to condemn, this refusal to delineate between protesting and rioting, bears responsibility for what happened in Chicago last night

Vacation Throughput: Comet NEOWISE

It may be decades before we see another one like NEOWISE. Or it may be next year. Who will I be when the next one comes? Or where?