Total Lunar Eclipse - Wow!
This has nothing to do with CAD but thought you might enjoy. The total Lunar Eclipse tonight was an amazing sight. These photos aren’t the greatest resolution but capture the colors. My little Canon i...
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Can you resist hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism?
I bet you can’t resist clicking through to see what it’s about, I couldn’t. I see your hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism and raise you a ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase - The Loom
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An interview with Freeman Dyson
John found a fascinating interview with one of my favourite scientists; Freeman Dyson. You must be from away: This I need - #4 Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Institute for Ad...
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A good programme on Bad Science - Radio New Zealand National
“Ideas” cover bad science and how to educate people about good science. Great to hear this sort of discussion on public radio. Radio New Zealand National : Programmes A-Z : Sunday Morning with C...
Raising money for the Big Bang?
My interest in cosmology and music meant this headline from a New Zealand Symphony Orchestra newsletter appealed. Raising money for the Big Bang - nzso.co.nz NZSO players and their friends put their shoulders to the wheel in a Wellington concert that will raise money for some new percussion
The Simpsons & string theory?
String theory meets The Simpsons? How a fake word from The Simpsons ended up in a perfectly cromulent string theory paper – Sciam Observations: Scientific American Blog
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It was today - Apollo 11
Graeme Hill had a special moon science session, with Grant Christie, marking the anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. While the Apollo images video are familiar seeing, and standing under, a...
Bad Ad Physics? - Heineken World Rugby Cup 2007 Continental Shift
The Heineken World Rugby Cup 2007 Continental Shift advert shows Rugby teams pushing the continents together to form a mega-continent. Maybe I’m missing something: If you are standing on a conti...
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Climate change, a guide
New Scientist have bundled a collection of articles concerning the common climate myths and misconceptions. Some of these arguements are cited by both sides of the climate debate. I’ve shown the title...
Richard Dawkins, reason alone?
This is a brilliant interview with Richard Dawkins from “ The Agenda ”. Richard Dawkins | Can We Live by Reason Alone? Tonight on The Agenda: world-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins and his...
Save the Kiwi (Apteryx) from the Flying Spaghetti Monster Kiwi Motivation Test
How could the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) threaten our national icon, the New Zealand Kiwi (Apteryx) ? This submission to a well recognised Government Conservation Agency explains it all:...
Religion ends and philosophy begins...
"Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends and astronomy begins." - Christopher Hitchens onegoodmove: Lou Dobbs - Christopher Hitchens Lou Dobbs interviews Christopher Hitchens author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything… onegoodmove: Lou Dobbs - Christopher Hitchens