Insights and sympathy for academia.
Category: science fun
An overview of recent writing and a word or two on prizes.
How long since you last handwrote a letter on paper and sent it by post? Wanna get old school for a cause?
Coffee and hydroponics while we 3D-print and machine? Why, yes.
Thoughts on poor science media coverage. A weird phenomenon. Personal research in progress. Trying to take advantage of summer.
Elementary particles teddy bears.
Are you here for last month’s news? for art? for procrastination?
Get nostalgic for the future with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s collection of travel posters for the skies.
Remember when cosmonaut Yelena Serova was asked how she would look after her hair in space? Or when astronaut Sally Ride was asked ‘do you weep when things go wrong on the job?’
Everyone who has been thinking about extraterrestrials for five minutes straight without involving fantasies of abduction has certainly wondered “why don’t we see any signs of them?” Estimations say that it’d be within reason to expect thousands of civilizations in…