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Several years ago, I developed a public lecture on the cosmic distance ladder in astronomy from a historical perspective (and emphasising the role of mathematics in building the ladder). I previous…
Ingenious maneuvers by missions to go over the Sun, chase a comet and sail using the Sun.
A quick look at the ballistics and stability of aerial fireworks.
Stephen Wolfram uses his fundamental physics model to analyze how to go faster than light as an engineering problem & discusses the structure of space & nature of time for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program keynote address.
Something that is kind of annoying about NASA photos is that they end up so touched up, and so many liberties taken with them that they become creatures of their own.
A deep dive summary into on of the most interesting books I read this year.
If you regularly read cognitive science or psychology blogs (or even just the lowly New York Times!), you’ve probably heard of something called the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger e…
Some might find it ironic that an organization like NASA, who studies our atmosphere, is ok with rockets polluting it so much. Or isn’t it weird that Elon Musk, the same person who is pushing sustainable energy with Tesla also has a rocket company that runs on fossil fuels? So today we are going to do a deep dive into…
There’s been recent controversy about the use of face masks for protection against coronavirus. Mainstream sources, including the CDC and most of the media say masks are likely useless and no…
Virologists have created dozens of chimeric coronaviruses in the lab over the past 20 years.
I. Julian Jaynes’ The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind is a brilliant book, with only two minor flaws. First, that it purports to explains the origin of consciou…
