I love that this happened just down the road from where I live. Police called out to a 999 call about an unexplained object in the night sky solved the mystery straight away for their when they realised it was actually the Moon. Well worth listening to.
This week’s Carnival is up so get over there and get reading!
Also found this image via the Carnival which I rather liked.
The startling reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos sweets, made famous in thousands of YouTube videos, finally has a scientific explanation.
If you drop a pack of Mentos into a bottle of Diet Coke, you get this huge fountain of spray and Diet Coke foam coming out,” says Tonya Coffey, a physicist at Appalachian State University [...]
A great xkcd comic about the sciences and their pecking order.
Some funny (and some terrible) astronomy ‘light bulb’ jokes. Feel free to add you’re own if you know of any more.
What is the Timecube? Well obviously it is the fact that we think we have 24 hour days, but actually we have four sides of a 96 hour timecube. Duh! This incredible crazy-person website is well worth a trawl.
If, like me, you’ve been lucky enough to have flown with an airline that stocks the Sky Mall catalogue then you’ll know it’s brilliant. This is a magazine specially designed for people who have been sitting on an aeroplane for hours and have nothing to do. Why else would you buy anything from it? It’s [...]
Many animals have been put into space. Here I list my favourite space critters, including the Orbiting Frogs for which this very blog is named.
Just a quick note to point out Stuart’s post at the Astronomy Blog, showing off some packaging for a telescope produced by Oxford University:
I am tempted to write to them, but worry about offending them. Probably because I’m a Libra.
[via Astronomy Blog]
Well its finally here! I have just upgraded my Macbook to the new Westie operating system and I’m already seeing the advantages. For starters my lovely white mac has already acquired a really handy muddy fringe just below the trackpad. Gorgeous!
For ease of use, Westie also allows you to browse your files in Westieflow, which [...]
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