Telic Thoughts (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Suzan Mazur's interview of Chris McKay bears the descriptive title NASA Humanist Chris McKay: Where Darwinism Fails. McKay is a scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center where he researches the evolution of the solar system as well as the origin of life. From the linked article: Suzan Mazur: What about other mechanisms of [...]
Vulture (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Photo: WireImage, Getty Images, Chris McKay / Retna On Sunday, bespectacled, cirrhosis-livered Hold Steady guitarist Tad Kubler set off a music-blog firestorm by brutally slagging off Radiohead during an interview with BBC's Radio 6. "I think they've lost the plot," he said. "I like them as a rock band, all the buttons and sequencing and stuff like that I don't really care for. I'm a fan of rock music,...
Wired Science (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Lunar Scientists are meeting up at NASA Ames this week to discuss the full spectrum of lunar science: of the Moon, on the Moon and from the Moon. Dr. Chris McKay, my former astrobiology mentor at NASA, teamed up with...
End Times Prophecy News (Free subscription) | 02/17/2008
It may sound like science fiction, but NASA scientist Chris McKay did suggest that we dig for dinosaur relics on the moon at a SETI conference last week. Robin Hansen reports on what he heard and quotes McKay's 1996 paper, "Time for intelligence on other planets": It is now considered probable that the dinosaurs were not the lumbering clods of urban myth but that they were biochemically and
Overcoming Bias (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
At the SETI conference last week I was surprised to hear NASA's Chris McKay suggest we look for dinosaur relics on the moon. Dinos went suddenly extinct about 65M years ago, and the dino fossil record seems spotty enough that...
