by Tom | Feb 27, 2013 | Personal, Science
Fabulous panoramas to spend a few minutes exploring. Mars by Curiosity Mars Panorama – Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 177 in Out of this World Who knew our London house was so directly underneath Alexandra Palace (when viewed from the BT tower)? Click to...
by Tom | Feb 7, 2013 | General, Science
Some videos to catch up on to remind you quite how astonishing and beautiful our universe is. You could fit the earth underneath the solar prominence in this video. The whole earth. Driving on the moon? Done it and got the video. Landing on another planet’s...
by Tom | Jan 18, 2013 | Science
Fecal Matter Transplant is getting stronger and stronger evidence that it can really work to cure problematic infections, in this case Clostridium difficile. Now what do we call the treatment? FMT is a bit of a nicer name until you hear what it means. The synthetic...
by Tom | Jan 11, 2013 | Science, View
Stunning shot of blue gas clouds (the size of Pluto’s orbit) being ejected into the space surrounding Orion. APOD: 2013 January 10 – The Orion Bullets.
by Tom | Oct 31, 2012 | Reading, Science
It is a scandal and a potential disaster that we aren’t better at probabilities. Probability is hard and often counter-intuitive, but we have to find some simple ways to nudge people to realise this and deal with it. If I try to translate from numeracy to...
by Tom | Oct 30, 2012 | Reading, Science
Evolution of lactose tolerance Fascinating read: we used to turn off lactose tolerance to avoid sibling rivalry. Then suddenly we didn’t (in Europe, at least).
