nasa-jupiter-IO-200x200Wired has been covering technology, tech business, tech lifestyle, and tech products with its special brand of techno-utopianism and hacker wit since its inception in early 1993. It’s Science Blogs section, however, is a relative newcomer. Here readers will find the latest in the science of natural disasters, the ins and outs of everyday physics, and explanations of everything from how to race a motorcycle across the United States to what it takes to put rockets into space. Recent articles have presented a vision for a better, realities-driven higher education system, coverage of volcanoes in Chile and Indonesia, a philosophic treatise on the new Star Wars, and some erudite thoughts on how to measure the speed of light.