by Tom | Sep 21, 2012 | Science
The Annals of Improbable Research has announced the IgNobel prizes for 2012. Cracking Friday reading. My favourites in no particular order: Literature for a “report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about...
by Tom | Sep 18, 2012 | Reading, Science
Moondoggle: The Forgotten Opposition to the Apollo Program shows that the public was not so keen on the moon landings in the 1960s. The amount of money spent in constant dollars is shocking, and the modern move to drones and robotic devices does suggest that we need...
by Tom | Sep 10, 2012 | Reading, Science
How culture drove human evolution argues for the removal of the distinction between biological and cultural evolution. Example (possibly poor) precis: Humans are thought to have caught animals by tracking them over long periods of time and gradually exhausting them,...
by Tom | Sep 6, 2012 | Government, Reading, Science
Feynman nails it, as always. Can we say this to the reshuffleshambles lot? The rest of the article is a great selection of his thinking too. … as I’d like to show Galileo our world, I must show him something with a great deal of shame. If we look away from the...
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Reading, Science
Hurricane Paths on Planet Earth. A nice representation of all of the recorded typhoons / hurricanes since 1851. Fascinating.
by Tom | Sep 5, 2012 | Science, View
Two astonishing shots of other worlds. I’d not seen the Apollo 11 Landing Site Panorama before, and the high-resolution panorama from Curiosity on Mars is clearly new. For reference, Mount Sharp in the Curiosity shot rises 5.5km above the crater floor.
