Science and SciFi
Just like buses… exactly just like buses… you wait for one and two come all at once. That is exactly what I thought when I heard about the two results in number theory that… Read More »Twin Primes and the Ternary Goldbach Conjecture
I twitted earlier this week an Open Letter to the Royal Institution by Ian Gent in response to the bizarre and quite frankly ludicrous decision by the RI to trademark the term “Christmas Lectures”. I agree… Read More »Yuletide Disquisitions?? Come on!
I have been meaning to write this post for a while, but for one reason or another (or rather many reasons…) I had not been able to. Right, so what has triggered this post? Well,… Read More »Quantum Leap… Are you sure you mean that?
I never found myself so interested in interfaces and colloids before. Great marketing!
In celebration of the Euler’s birthday, Google has created a doodle today. The doodle includes: The formula for the Euler characteristic, , which relates the number of vertices, edges and faces of a spherical polyhedron… Read More »Happy 306th birthday Euler!
Turing’s Universal Machine is voted the best British innovation The theoretical “Universal Machine” proposed by Turing in the 1930s has been voted the greatest British innovation from the past 100 years in an online poll… Read More »Turing’s Universal Machine is voted the best British innovation
Listen as Albert Einstein Reads ‘The Common Language of Science’ 1941 | Open Culture. Have you ever wondered how Albert Einstein sounded? Well here you have an opportunity to find out. In the link above… Read More »Listen as Albert Einstein Reads ‘The Common Language of Science’ 1941 | Open Culture
I was planning to post this yesterday, but for one thing or another I forgot… Anyway, yesterday Nicolaus Copernicus would have been celebrating his 540th birthday. Copernicus is well known for Heliocentrism, i.e. the idea… Read More »Copernicus celebrated – 540th Birthday Anniversary
Solar energy currently provides only a quarter of a percent of the planet’s electricity supply, but the industry is growing at staggering speed. Underlying this growth is a phenomenon that solar’s supporters call Swanson’s law,… Read More »The Swanson Effect
