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November 25, 2015
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is our best guess at the nature of space and time and it is turning 100 years old today. (To be precise, this is the 100th anniversary of its publication)
Einstein's theory of general relativity is turning 100 years old.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/inside-einsteins-mind.htmlEinstein's General Theory of Relativity is our best guess at the nature of space and time and it is turning 100 years old today. (To be precise, this is the 100th anniversary of its publication)
The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the most detailed image ever taken of the gravitational lens G2237 + 0305 sometimes referred to as the Einstein Cross. The photograph shows four images of a very distant quasar which has been multiple-imaged by a relatively nearby galaxy acting as a gravitational lens. The angular separation between the upper and lower images is 1.6 arcseconds.
November 24, 2015
Disgusting appearance from Trump superPAC Leader on CNN.
November 20, 2015
There's also an article on WaPo with a close up image of the 'eyes'. (trypophobia warning)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/11/20/how-one-animal-covers-its-body-armor-in-stoney-eyes/
This Animal Has a Suit of Armor With Hundreds of Built-In Eyes
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/this-animal-has-armor-with-hundreds-of-eyes-and-lenses-made-of-rock/416523/Many animals are covered in protective armorshells, scales, plates, and frills that protect their soft bodies. But one group of little-known sea creatures called chitons have evolved armor that's unlike anything else in nature.
Because it contains eyes. Hundreds of eyes.
With lenses made from rock, that erode as the animals age and have to be continuously replaced.
Chitons are mollusks, related to snails, clams, and octopuses. Their oval bodies are covered by a hard shell consisting of eight overlapping plates, which makes them look a bit like a woodlouse with a skirt, or perhaps like the forehead of a Klingon. In many species, these plates are dotted with hundreds of tiny beads, each less than a tenth of a millimeter across. These are eyes. Each contains a lens, a light-sensitive retina, and a layer of black pigment.
Because it contains eyes. Hundreds of eyes.
With lenses made from rock, that erode as the animals age and have to be continuously replaced.
Chitons are mollusks, related to snails, clams, and octopuses. Their oval bodies are covered by a hard shell consisting of eight overlapping plates, which makes them look a bit like a woodlouse with a skirt, or perhaps like the forehead of a Klingon. In many species, these plates are dotted with hundreds of tiny beads, each less than a tenth of a millimeter across. These are eyes. Each contains a lens, a light-sensitive retina, and a layer of black pigment.
There's also an article on WaPo with a close up image of the 'eyes'. (trypophobia warning)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/11/20/how-one-animal-covers-its-body-armor-in-stoney-eyes/
November 1, 2015
In this short (~9 minute) audio clip, On The Media host Brooke Gladstone talks with Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com. They discuss the Media's influence on Polls and Polls' influence on the Media.
They spend a bit of time on Republican candidates, but also talk about Sanders and Clinton.
Could provide some thought-gristle to chew on.
(Audio Clip) Chicken Or Egg? Media Pull Versus Push. - On The Media interview Nate Silver
http://www.onthemedia.org/series/chicken-or-egg-collaboration-media-five-thirty-eig/Yes, polls are stupid (at this stage of the election). But as Nate Silver, famed poll-cruncher and editor-in-chief of the data news site FiveThirtyEight has observed, polls -- no matter how unscientific -- do fuel media narratives. And those narratives can affect voters, and thus influence polls. It's a question of which comes first: the media egg or the chicken poll.
To find the answer to the question, On the Media and FiveThirtyEight are working together this election season to track the push and pull between polling, media coverage, and public interest in 2016 candidates.
Watch this space for our series of data-driven conversations and commentary.
To find the answer to the question, On the Media and FiveThirtyEight are working together this election season to track the push and pull between polling, media coverage, and public interest in 2016 candidates.
Watch this space for our series of data-driven conversations and commentary.
In this short (~9 minute) audio clip, On The Media host Brooke Gladstone talks with Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com. They discuss the Media's influence on Polls and Polls' influence on the Media.
They spend a bit of time on Republican candidates, but also talk about Sanders and Clinton.
Could provide some thought-gristle to chew on.
October 31, 2015
Just heard a new neologism on the radio.
Wasn't sure where else to put this, so I put it here.
The term was blazenly, and in the context of what he was saying I think it was a combo of blatantly and brazenly.
I don't think the speaker necessarily meant to create it, but I found it interesting.
Carry on
(Yes I know 'new neologism' is sort of redundant, but I don't care)
October 16, 2015
Bernie needs some helicopter parent outreach..
..to get their kids up & at that polling booth.
October 1, 2015
If you're interested, The Takeaway is doing a what-if think piece on a Jimmy Carter 2nd term.
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/what-life-would-be-if-jimmy-carter-won-second-term/
Warm birthday wishes for president Carter.
If you're interested, The Takeaway is doing a what-if think piece on a Jimmy Carter 2nd term.
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/what-life-would-be-if-jimmy-carter-won-second-term/
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