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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was scouting for a large Texas ranch to buy in March 2003.The billionaire wanted a huge parcel of land to test spacecraft for his then-nascent startup Blue Origin.He was scouting properties by helicopter with a cowboy, an attorney, and a pilot named "Cheater."A gust of wind blew the helicop...

My colleague-in-blogging Ethan Siegel does a regular reader-request feature, and this week's edition drifts into my territory, answering a question about using quantum entanglement for faster-than-light communication. As I jokingly said on Twitter, Ethan's answer is pretty good for an astronomer, but there are bits ...