Thoughts on a Backwards Moon

It's 2016? Already? OK then. Well, in 2014 I wrote a year-end wrap up of the blog, talking about mistakes I made, posts I liked writing, and all that. And I'd do it again for 2015, but as it happens I already made a video about the big science stories of 2015, so go watch that. But I do want to focus on one thing in the video, something that really made my year (and got me thinking about other topics, too). At the end, I talk about the episode of The Simpsons with Elon Musk ("The Musk Who Fell t...