A month or so ago it was the 18th anniversary of our glorious elopement to beautiful downtown Reno. Every year we try to take a few days to recuperate from our jobs at a hotel within a few hours drive. As always happens, on the 4th day of our trip,...

Hi! I'm Eric Korpela. You may know me from such blog posts as "Ewoks live under my deck" and "How Spock and Sylar are related." As part of my continuing series on what the heck scientists do, I'd like to talk about brains. You may ask, "What is...

Hi! My name is Eric, and like a number of the bloggers in the new Huffington Post Science section, I'm a scientist. An astrophysicist, to be exact. Unlike many of them, I've never won a Nobel prize. Even if I find ET, someone else...