'Science' Category
Science and Literature
In his article May 11 article for the Boston Globe titled Measure for Measure, Johnathan Gottschall writes:
We literary scholars have mostly failed to generate surer and firmer knowledge about the things we study. While most other fields gradually accumulate new and durable understanding about the world, the great minds of literary studies have, over the […]Things you didn’t know you didn’t know
The Bad Astronomer’s at it again with a great post called Ten Things You Didn’t Know About the Milky Way Galaxy. I actually did know a few of those things, but certainly not all. I can do little more than look at stuff like this in absolute wonder. We know so much and yet everything […]
Levitation
The Telegraph recently carried a story about levitation and how it could be used to help nanotechnologists keep ”tiny objects from sticking to each other.” It can do this by reversing the Casimir force, which causes things to be drawn together in the first place. In theory, this could be used to levitate whole humans and, more […]
New picture of Jupiter
This is from from the Bad Astronomy Blog and was taken by the New Horizons mission to Pluto.
Jupiter is possibly my favorite planet. I was quite fond of Pluto too, but we know how that went…