Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Theoretically It's All Relative, Generally Speaking

Remember a few years back, when there was that brief, fleeting possibility that neutrinos were travelling f aster than the speed of light...
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How To Go To Space: A Thing Explainer Thing Explained

What is a Thing Explainer , you may ask? It's the brain child, like so many ideas, of Randall Munroe, person who made xkcd. The simpl...
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[Review] - The Martian

[Review] - The Martian

Courtesy of 20th Century FOX The Martian was my favourite book of last year. I've said this so many times now, regular readers prob...
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Makes You Believe We're Actually Going To Mars (We Aren't)

I liked me some Cosmos: A Space/Time Odyssey . And I'm looking forward to The Martian . And in a brilliant bit of sympathetic promoti...
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Come To Mars, We'll Get Together, Have A Few Laughs...

We're a little more than a month away from the release of The Martian  (less if you're going to TIFF, where it will have it's...
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It's Far Beyond The Stars, It's Near Beyond The Moon

It's Far Beyond The Stars, It's Near Beyond The Moon

Humans don't do well with scale. We can't process it. It's a fault really, our brains simply haven't evolved the capacity...
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Back In My Day, Pluto Was Never A Planet

Late night television is not a great place for innovation. The formula that the majority of the American TV late night shows work from is...
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We Are Here, And So Is Everything Else

We Are Here, And So Is Everything Else

Courtesy of the ESA The Gaia satellite, operated by the European Space Agency, is a fascinating project. Equipped with a billion pixel c...
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Gimme A Second...

As John Oliver explained this past Sunday, today is a Leap Second Day. Leap Seconds are things that most people have never heard of, and f...
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People Are Interested In Dinosaurs This Week, For Some Reason

Which is a disturbing trend. People should be interested in dinosaurs all the time. They were awesome, and gigantic (some of them) and re...
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Science The Shit Out It

I read a lot of books. A lot a lot of books. So, when I say that the best book I've read this year is Andy Weir's The Martian , ...
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