A Brave New World
Introduction Ever since we came out of the trees and into the plains man has tried to predict the future, and even though our methods and predictions have changed, two …
ISS Tour – Welcome To The International Space Station
A tour of the International Space Station
Standard of Science Journalism
This morning on the Today program there was an interesting piece on the quality of science journalism. For our non UK audience the Today program is breakfast news and comment …
Pigeon outperforms internet (updated)
In a brilliant example of old technology outdoing its replacement a homing pigeon successfully transferred 4GB of data faster than an ASDL internet connection. The experiment was done by an …
Should we go back to the Moon?
With the celebrations of the Apollo Moon landings in recent days many people have been discussing the future of manned space travel. I am far to young to have witnessed …
What\’s the point of learning this?
One of the things I often asked when I was at school was \”When will we ever use this?\” It was a regular problem for our teachers that often the …