Space, Science, Technology
I’ve been called a lot of things but ‘rebel’ hasn’t come up too often. Not that I mind. As part of a Mazda campaign, I’m being highlighted as one of four TED Fellows* who are ‘Mazda Rebels’. The other three are thoroughly impressive and I recommend you take a look. There’s an online vote where... Continue Reading →
TED 2014 has just ended here in Vancouver and I have finally now experienced an event I’ve heard a lot about for many years. I’ve watched TED talks online for as long as I’ve watched anything online and the real deal did not disappoint. Attending TED for the first time has been intense, wonderful, and... Continue Reading →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DppJ-Sexmdg This was recorded at the Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London in February - it's me summarising the Zooniverse for anyone out there that might like to try out our own brand of Citizen Science.
This video is a time-lapse of images taken from a geostationary satellite. It shows a whole year of the Earth's orbit around the Sun from 2010 to 2011. You can see the difference in illumination between the seasons created by the Earth's tilt; the angle of the line between light and dark changes as we... Continue Reading →
Plants aren't something I know very much about, but I remember the concept of turgor pressure from my GCSEs. Plant cells absorb water a different way to the cells in our bodies because they contain 'vacuoles' which our cells don't have. Plant cells also have cell walls, and as the vacuole absorbs more and more... Continue Reading →
During our Stargazing Oxford event on January 12th we had three sets of mini-lectures. These are short, concise talks about astrophysics that anyone should get something out of. There’s galaxies, planets, cosmology and more. I’ll be blogging links to some of these in the next few days. You can find the current set of talks... Continue Reading →
Thierry Legault does it again! Utterly incredible movie of the Space Shuttle Discovery as it approaches the International Space Station at 17,000mph. This movie was taken from the ground. [Direct link](Source: http://sites.estvideo.net/)
Orbiting Frog 