Excuse Me While I Touch This Guy
Jan 17
This is a cool idea: a space book for the visually impaired and blind. Using a combination of braille, embossing and textured images, this amazing new book is aiming to bring space and its beauty to a new slice of the demographic pie. (This is good timing for the internet, what with the recent YouTube videos of the sounds of Jupiter and Saturn.) The book also points out that a lot of what...
Science and the Internet
Jun 25
If the tail was smarter, the tail would wag the dog. Two things have just come back to me at the same time and collided wonderfully, thanks to an article over at Universe Today. The article is one about the liquid mirror telescope that a NASA researcher proposes could be built on the Moon in the near(ish) future. The eagle-eyed among you may recalled I blogged the same story back in May,...
The Science of Zara
Jun 06
I have been listeing to the audiobook version of J. Surowiecki's 'The Wisdom of Crowds'. Its a really intetresting book that looks at the way group decision making and decentralised organisations can produce results better and more intelligently that the members of those groups individually. Its a look at the modern penchant for decentralising everything and asks, in a round about fashion,...
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