Richard Brill's "Facts of the Matter"
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Columns

 

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Jan

 

01/20 Antioxidants

01/05 A Rose By Any Other Name

01/04 Beagle Has Landed

01/02 Fundamentals of the Hangover

01/01 The Principle of Equivalence

01/07 Ozone-Oxygen Cycle

No Column

01/19 The Sweet Truth About Sugar

01/18 Mars, Mad Cows and Englishmen

01/16 Tsunami: Too Big For The Ocean

01/15 Superbugs and Impotent Drugs

01/21 Nature's Plasma Light Show

Feb

 

02/03 Island Ecosystem

02/02 Shaken and Stirred

02/01 Then There Was Light: The Story of Magnetism

02 Patterns and Order In The Mathematical Universe

02/05 Drilling For The Mantle

02/04 Diamonds: Fire In Ice

No Column

02/16 February, Festival of Fertility

02/15 The Solid Truth of Concrete

02/20 Chemicals To Dye For

02/1920 Rocks Remember

02/18 Ultraviolet

Mar

 

03/03 Weather Prediction

03/02 Rainbows in the Rocks

03/07 The ABCs of Do Re Mi

03 Carbon Dioxide
Takes Heat For
Global Warming

03/05/2006 Titanium: Metal of Titans

03/04 Pass the Energy Please

03/17 Mars & Space Exploration

03/16 Air Masses & Jet Streams

03/21 It's About Time

03/20 Chemical Analysis

03/19/2006 Extinctions, Flood Basalts and Impacts

03/18 Bacteria: The Essence of Life

Apr

 

04/07 The Technology Chicken and Egg

04/07 Time's Equation

04/04 Clouds Got In The Way

04/03 Radioactivity: Nuclear Rejects

04/02 Ethanol, Energy and Biowaste

04/01 The Light Mystique

04/21 Transgenics

04/20 Easter: Eggs, and Bunnies?

04/18 Lunar Legacy

04/17 Genomic Gnomes

04/16 Chemicals of Life and Biogeochemical Cycles

04/15 Fictious Forces & Physics

May

 

05/05 Nanotubes

05/04 Wonders of Water

05/02 The Grasp Of Gravitation

05/01 A Briefer History of Time: Standard Time and Saving Daylight

05/07 Sea of Electromagnetism

05/06 Pi R Squared

05/19 Petrochemistry

05/18 Numbers & Counting

05/16 Pass the Plastics Please

05/15 Rivers Run Through It

05/21 Uranium Enrichment

05/20 Two Days, Same Time

Jun

 

06/02 Spectacular Skylights

06/01 Black Holes

06/04 Time and The Transit of Venus

06/05 Giordano Bruno: The Forgotten Philosopher

06/04 A Star Is Born

06/03 The Salt of the Earth

06/16 Malaria

06/15 See How They Run

06/20 Shedding Light on Light

06/19 Life and Death Are Not Science

06/18/ No column

06/17 Fiery Ice From the Sea

Jul

No Column

07/07 Summer Aphelion

07/06 Close Encouters of the Red Kind

07/04 Stick To It

07/03 The Digital Tsunami

07/02 Electrons and Chemical Bonds

07/01 Mental Crossovers

No Column

07/21 Comfort Cooling

07/20 Color My World

07/18 Chips Fall Where They May

07/17 Clouds and Saturated Air

07/16 Earth's Magnetic Magic

07/15 Rocks of the Ages

Aug

08/05 Why Is There Air

08/04 Volcanoes & Computers

08/03 Space Weather

08/08 Tending to Equilibrium

08/07 No Column

08/06 Planet or Not

08/05 Comets, Impacts and Meteor Showers

08/19 Global Warming II

08/18 Proteomics

08/17 Truly Transparent

08/22 Megawatts and Manpower

08/21 Rounding the Square

08/20 Rogue Waves

 

Sep

09/02Creationism vs. Science

09/01 Heat Islands

09 Oxidation: Fire, Air and Water

09/05 Notions of Motions

09/04 Hurricane: Physically Alive

09/03 Humidity, Dew Point and Clouds

 

09/23 Technology vs. Hatred

09/15 Aspirin

09/21 The Irony of Iron

09/19 A Better Light Bulb

09/18 Aluminum: From Precious Metal to Commodity

09/17 Earth's Heat Budget

 

Oct

10 Sleeping Giant

10 Resources vs. Environment

10/05 Coils of Keratin

10/03 A Legacy of Lunacy

10/02 Climatic Connections

10/01 The Electric Frog

 

10/21 Geopetropolitics

10/20 Extinct or Dormant?

10/19 Chocolate: Nobody KnowsThe Truffles I've Seen

10/17 The Truth About Truth

10/16 Viruses and Pandemics

10/15 Relationships of State

 

Nov

11/04 No Column

11/03 Source of Lava

11/02 Ceramic Sorcery

11 Oxygen Revolution

11 Chemosynthesis

11/05 Between Two Fires

 

11/18 Sputnik

11/17 Tornadoes

11/16 Is It Cold Or Is It Me

11/21 Making Sense of Scents

11/20 The Hydrologic Cycle

11/19 Geology Is Everywhere

 

Dec

12/02 Science Education

12/01 Human Clones

12 Tension At The Surface

12/05 Autumn Winds

12/04 Science, Ego and the Supernatural

12/03 Temperature and Perception

 

12/16 Speed vs Accidents

12/30 Calendars

12/15 Nature is Natural

12/21 An Inch Of Air

12/19 Isaac Newton: Another Child of Christmas

12/18 Einstein's Miracle Year

12/17 Into Thin Air

 

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