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Earth calling Cassini 22 Aug 2013 | 12:40 pm
People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA’s Cassini mission on July 19 — the day the Cassini spacecraft turned back towa...
Sciencebase FeedMyReads Q&A #DBQuestions 22 Aug 2013 | 01:12 am
The excellent author-reader twitter community hosted by FeedMyReads (aka Fraser Stoopman), put out a call for questions from twitter users for me, sciencebase, this week. Fraser has been sharing my an...
A new nova in the sky 17 Aug 2013 | 01:38 pm
There’s a new “nova” in the sky. Not a supernova, just a nova. But, what is a nova? A classical nova happens in a special kind of tightly-orbiting binary star system: one where a relatively normal st...
Fifty ways to pack your circles 2 Aug 2013 | 11:51 am
Squaring the circle is but one futile endeavour akin to squeezing a round peg into a square hole. But there are many improbable problems that humanity seeks to solve and with the advent of supercomput...
Pale Blue Dot 2.1 23 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. I think we can call this...
Why your personal CAM story is not evidence 4 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
Your regular doc was ignoring your symptoms or told you to take a couple of aspirin and come back if the problem persists, so you headed to a practitioner who treats you holistically, who understands,...
Satisfying your curiosity 2 Jul 2013 | 01:12 am
Latest science news in my fortnightly column for Spectroscopynow.com, now online: Steroid infection: Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a bat...
Entrepreneurial mothers push hard 25 Jun 2013 | 01:13 am
Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that...
Science books for summer 20 Jun 2013 | 01:13 am
Brian Clegg – Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe. For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happe...
Guiding pledge 2.0 dismisses God and the Queen 19 Jun 2013 | 12:35 pm
Apparently, the Guiding Movement is to upgrade its pledge that all members must make when they join. Currently they vow to: "to love my God, to serve my Queen and my country" That obviously only appli...
