brainwagon

Over the last couple of days I managed to skim a bunch of reports that scientists had discovered the light from stars which formed only 200 million years after the Big Bang, but the matter seemed pretty dry and uninteresting. But try reading Phil Plait’s account of the discovery. Not only does Phil do an excellent job of explaining the discovery in accurate yet understandable terms, he also conveys the thrill of new discovery. He’s psyched about this stuff, and it rubs off pretty easily.