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Category: serendipity
Insights and sympathy for academia.
How long since you last handwrote a letter on paper and sent it by post? Wanna get old school for a cause?
Haters gonna hate.
Can you guess how many people have ever taken a PhD on SETI?
Elementary particles teddy bears.
Talking about women overlooked for the prestigious prize.
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…
A useful graph circulated one year ago – so, April the 1st. It might seem cryptic at first. But it is simply a collection of some of the supersymmetric particles that ought to have been discovered in the last decades,…
Fast radio bursts are one of the outstanding celestial mysteries. As was written here last month, these super-energetic flashes have been puzzling everyone who cares enough since 2007 when the first one was detected. However, a few which were found…