I’ve just been to see In the Shadow of the Moon at Eden Court tonight.
Between 1968 & 1972, twelve men voyaged to the moon & walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have done so.
This documentary tells the story of those missions, in the words of the remaining astronauts as well [...]
Posted on Sunday 20th January 2008 in Reviews, Science tagged film-review, moon, Photos, planets, review, space, USofA, with no comments.
A really interesting article by Steven Pinker in The New Republic, on why we swear and why it is still taboo. TNR Online | What the F***?
Quite long, but worth the read IMO.
found via John Gruber/Daring Fireball
Posted on Sunday 21st October 2007 in Blog, Science tagged homo-sapiens, language, Links, Science, with no comments.
NASA have now made their amazing montage of city lights across the Earth at night available as a layer on Google Earth.
To switch it on, go to Layers > Featured Content > NASA > Earth City Lights, but before you do that, for maximum impact, navigate to an area you know well, like Scotland, and [...]
Posted on Sunday 22nd July 2007 in Blog, Science tagged Computers, energy, environmental, landscapes, mapping, Photos, Science, space, technology, with no comments.
Everyone should read this book. It should be part of the national curriculum, as it is much more important than Shakespeare.
The Revenge of Gaia
Yes, James Lovelock does have an outlying view of the Earth system we live in, but only by reading these theories that are not mainstream, do we truly appreciate the potential perils [...]
Posted on Friday 22nd June 2007 in Reviews, Science tagged book-review, books, climate change, environmental, Science, with no comments.
Hopefully Richard Branson’s $25m climate challenge will do for carbon sequestration what the Ansari X Prize has done for private spaceflight.
Millions of pounds are on offer for the person who comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Whether we can successfully engineer our way out of [...]
Posted on Sunday 11th February 2007 in Engineering, Science tagged climate change, energy, Engineering, environmental, Science, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
