by podblack on October 26, 2009
Skeptical Books for Children – Part One and Skeptical Books for Children – Part Two and Skeptical Books for Children – Part Three and Skeptical Books for Children – Part Four – An ongoing series for parents, educators, authors and those enthusiastic about outreach to the younger years. ***** According to renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, [...]
by podblack on June 21, 2009
Busy, busy! Just came back from seeing State Of Play — if you haven’t seen it, do. It’s almost as enjoyable as updating the “Evidence of BootFoot?” Blog. If you haven’t seen that… heh. Which reminds me — T, if you’re reading this, here’s the video featuring Helen Mirren that I mentioned tonight! You’ll never [...]
by podblack on March 5, 2008
Following on from Skeptical Books for Children — Part One and Skeptical Books for Children — Part Two. You may note that I’m moving in a rather chronological fashion through the reading years, so I’d suggest you begin from the start if you’re new to the series of posts. I’d like to untypically begin with [...]
by podblack on January 16, 2008
Thanks to the blog-masterpoet Digital Cuttlefish for the alert (by the way, you MUST check out his latest poem ‘Keep an open mind!’) There is a wonderful new book out, full of excellent writing on Academia, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Technology, Medicine & Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences… oh, yeah, and my [...]
by podblack on November 26, 2007
“Harvard Physicist Plays Magician with the Speed of Light“- Wired.com … About a decade ago, Hau started playing with BECs ? for a physicist, that means shooting lasers at them. She blew up a few. Eventually, she found that lasers of the right wavelengths could tune the optical properties of a BEC, giving Hau an [...]