Mars calling
Posted 3 months agoSeeing images from other planets never gets old. Huge congrats to the Phoenix Mars Mission! Massive respek.
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Science night
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe other night was Family Science Night at Andrea’s school. Since we’re very interested in having her exposed to as much science as possible, and also to show her that we take it seriously, off we went.
The actual presentation was given by a woman from the Arizona Science Center and involved fun and interesting things to do with liquid nitrogen. The children were highly amused by the flash-freezing of various objects like metal, racquet balls, onions, and bananas.
At the start of the presentation, the presenter had seven balloons, and asked the crowd how many of those she could fit into the small liquid nitrogen container. Turns out, she could fit all of them.
At which point it was incredibly hard to not yell, “Burn the witch! Burn her!“
So, I guess I still have some work to do on this “maturity” thing.
Remembering Carl Sagan
Posted 1 year, 8 months agoDecember 20, 2006 marks the tenth anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death, and a blog-a-thon about the work and impact of Dr. Sagan is being started.
His book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark stands as one of the most lucid and uplifting celebrations of reason and science ever written, and is one of those books you read and then want to press into the hands of everybody around you.
Thank you, Dr. Sagan.
Stephen Jay Gould
Posted 3 years, 3 months agoThe most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
—Stephen Jay Gould
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