Hot Dogs Afterwards
Jul 29
This came through my door today and really made me laugh. “Jesus meets a corpse – hot dogs afterwards”
Lightning in Slow Motion
Jul 28Amazing video of lightning taken with a very high frame rate camera. 9,000 images per second really lets you see that lightning does not behave as we all imagine.
Displaying Data with Swivel
Jul 13Swivel is a website that let’s you share reports of charts and numbers. It is like Excel, online. Swivel is free for public data, and charges a monthly fee to people who want to use it in private.
Earth 70 Million Years Younger
Jul 12A new geological study has set a more accurate age for planet Earth, according to scientists. Researchers say their investigation shows the Earth is 70 million years younger than the 4.537 billion-year-old planet “we had previously imagined”.
Orion and Perseus Seen by Planck
Apr 26
New images from Planck, ESA’s cosmological space observatory, show star formation in Orion and Perseus. These lovely images show cold prestellar cores about to burst into life as protostars. Planck is able to show a level of detail not yet seen at these wavelengths and to map the regions in a fantastic new way. These images show radiation with wavelengths of 10 mm (red), 850 microns (green)...
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Apr 26In the run up to my viva last week I became obsessed with a game I played a few years ago whilst at a summer school in Switzerland. Viva revision is somewhat mind-numbing because you feel that you are just reading your thesis thing over and over again. I took plenty of breaks to keep myself sane but I found that I needed to keep my brain active or I’d lose the plot. This game is the perfect...
Galaxy Zoo: Hubble
Apr 23
The Galaxy Zoo project has evolved once again. Galaxy Zoo: Hubble is the new incarnation of the Zooniverse's fantastic citizen science project. The latest Galaxy Zoo project continues to allow the public to help astronomers with real scientific research by getting to to visually classify galaxies online.
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