It Starts in Inimitable Style

Welcome to Lunar Weight.

This is a science blog, written by a cohort of science fans. Not scientists—though some of us may be scientists—and not science writers—though some of us are paid to write about science, by people who apparently know even less than we do—and for the love of God or Dawkins or JAMA not science journalists.

Just fans. Of chemistry, biology, psychology, physics, biomedicine, materials science, robotics, NOVA, hungover posting, and attention. Probably in that order, actually. So our style isn't quite as inimitable as promised, but so far there doesn't seem much imiting it.

Because this shit is awesome (the science stuff, not Lunar Weight. Well, maybe we are, but we're trying not to be smug). This shit is also occasionally profoundly silly. Even better, it's both. I mean, we're dealing with either a constant search for things that already exist, have existed, and exist quite well without our actually being aware of them (sort of like Columbus or even Leif Ericsson "discovering" the New World, much to the bemusement of various and sundry indigenous civilizations who just referred to it as, er, the World), or else an employment of the basic "hit it with a stick and see what happens," instinct extrapolated over 10,000 years of increasingly better sticks (hit it with a laser and see what happens!).

So here's what we promise. Coverage of science that interests us, with humor and insight, frequent but not guaranteed factual accuracy (please e-mail us if we get something butt wrong), occasional foul language, a sense of excitement, and the impending live-blogging of Shark Week on Discovery.