My cell phone connects with my car via Bluetooth so I can make and receive phone calls in my car without taking my hands off the steering wheel. I rarely do it, though, because of what I’ve read about credible … Continue reading
Category Archives: Science
This summer has been extraordinarily hot and dry in much of Europe, including places where air conditioning is rare. It’s been miserable for a lot of residents and tourists, but on the positive side, a side effect has been the … Continue reading
Caroline Herschel, sister of William Herschel, was the first female astronomer to be paid for her work and in 1828 was the first woman to win the gold award of the Royal Astronomical Society, where the following video was shot … Continue reading
Update 2018 February 7: The launch was successful in every respect but one: The middle of the three booster rockets failed to land on the floating platform as intended because one of the required engine firings didn’t happen. Interestingly, the … Continue reading
Here’s a sea shanty from the A Capella Science YouTube channel about the discovery of insulin. The song’s first-person narrator is a man named Leonard Thompson, who is dying of pneumonia but who would have died over a decade sooner … Continue reading
The bitter cold affecting the U.S. East Coast in early January created a strange phenomenon on the beach at Nantucket, Massachusetts: ocean water frozen to the consistency of slush, with slow-motion waves. This report from PBS News Hour runs under … Continue reading
Another one found on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) blog, from Monday: Link: https://youtu.be/h1eRp0EGOmE What we have here are smoke, dust, and salt spray as tracked by satellite, which shows wind patterns including the formation of hurricanes. A … Continue reading
This was highlighted yesterday on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day blog. It’s a one-minute animation of where we came from starting at the Big Bang and continuing to the present. Details can be found in the YouTube description at … Continue reading
Pediatrician and medical school professor Dr Aaron Carroll summarizes (in eight minutes) the research on abstinence-only versus comprehensive sex education: Link: https://youtu.be/0BkFQ0oUncE The title at the top of the window above — “The Evidence for Abstinence-Only Sex Education Is Scant” … Continue reading
The past few decades have seen some clever new ideas in telescope design, such as adaptive optics for ground-based telescopes that allow mirrors to be physically distorted in real time to correct for atmospheric turbulence and achieve sharpness that would … Continue reading