Blurbs
Oct 21st, 2008 |
By mooeypoo |
Category: Astronomy, Blurbs, Physics
A little while ago, the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem opened an exhibit featuring some of the torn, slightly burned pages of Col. Ilan Ramon’s personal diary from the shuttle Columbia. Ramon was the payload specialist onboard STS-107 (the spaceshuttle “Columbia”) that disintegrated during re-entry from space, killing all 7 crewmembers onboard. The diary survived the [...]
Tags: Astronomy, Col. Ilan Ramon, Columbia, Density, DNA, Earth, energy, Force, friction, Ilan, Israeli, Light, Mass, NASA, process, Ramon, round, shuttle, Space, space age, Speed, STS, surface
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Aug 19th, 2008 |
By mooeypoo |
Category: Astronomy, Blurbs, Party Trick, Top 10 List
A few months ago I released an experiment video explaining how Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth using the shadow of sticks. The method was performed almost two millenia ago, and produced quite accurate results (considering the ‘equipment’ used). But it was far from being the only (or first) method to understand our planet’s [...]
Tags: ancient science, Aristotle, Astronomy, bad astronomer, Circumference, controversy, curvature, Earth, Eratosthenes, experiment, factoids, JREF, Mechanics, Moon, NASA, Phil Plait, round, Skepticism, Space, space age, Trigonometry
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Aug 11th, 2008 |
By mooeypoo |
Category: Blurbs, Physics
The Olympics Games are here (well, in Beijing) and everyone’s watching and trying to guess who will win a medal. But, apparently, even the Olympics is a source of scientific inquiry, and not just for geeks. The “Speedo” controversy raises some interesting points about the effect of a swimsuit on the swimmer, and the effect [...]
Tags: Beijing, controversy, energy, Force, friction, Light, Liquid, LZR, Michael Phelps, Olympic, olympics, Pressure, RACER, space age, Speed, Speedo, surface, Swimsuit, Vacuum, Water
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Aug 6th, 2008 |
By mooeypoo |
Category: Blurbs
Awesome news came out yesterday about the JREF (James Randi Educational Foundation, that is responsible for The Amazing Meeting, among other things): Phil Plait (”The Bad Astronomer“) is the new President of the JREF! How awesome is that?
Check out the announcement on the Bad Astronomy blog!
Okay, beyond the fact that I have met Phil in [...]
Tags: Astronomy, JREF, Phil Plait, TAM
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Aug 1st, 2008 |
By mooeypoo |
Category: Blurbs
So CNN was its usual alarmist-self yesterday, and published a full-blown story about a weird-looking animal that washed ashore in Montauk, Long Island. The alarmist-tone they shared wasn’t surprising - CNN tends to go to the extreme whenever a bee flatulates in the far east. What could have been amusing (if only people wouldn’t be [...]
Tags: CNN, Leathery, Long Island, Monster, Montauk, Moost, science, Unusual
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