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On the Awfulness of PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi and Everything Else 21 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
I have given a lot of talks over the past few years and I’ve seen more than I can count. This year I saw one of the worst presentations ever – literally in my life I’m pretty sure I’ve not seen one as...
Staring Deep Into a Forming Star with ALMA 20 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
ALMA’s view of Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47. This image interweaves optical data (pink and purple; from ESO’s New Technology Telescope) with radio observations (orange and green; from the Atacama Large...
Amazing Perseid Meteor Animation 14 Aug 2013 | 02:14 am
Tonight (and last night too) have been your best chance to see this year’s Perseid meteor shower. With little or no Moon to wash out the skies, it’s a great chance to see, and to snap a picture of, th...
Large Magellanic Cloud as seen by Herschel and Spitzer 7 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy orbiting around our own Milky Way. You can see it from the Southern Hemisphere but not like this! This image combines Spitzer and Herschel data to show up ...
Summer Sights 1 Aug 2013 | 04:04 pm
Once you have a Meade ETX-90 Telescope aligned and ready to go (no small feat, at times) you can see some pretty cool objects in the Summer sky. Saturn is currently riding high, and the rings are at a...
Why I'm fed up with digital projects (and why I'm not): a rant 24 Jul 2013 | 05:42 pm
Reblogged from martha henson: blog: I've felt a little rant bubbling up in me over the last few months: a sense of disquiet about digital, a jaded annoyance about wasted time and resources and opportu...
Cassini’s Photo of the Earth, Seen from Saturn 21 Jul 2013 | 12:06 pm
NASA have released the raw version of Friday’s #WaveAtSaturn photograph of the Earth from Cassini. This image shows the Earth and the Moon as two bright stars; it was received on Earth yesterday, July...
The Earth Is Being Photographed Tonight: Say Cheese! 19 Jul 2013 | 07:58 pm
Smile for the camera… in space! In fact it’s cameras as two spacecraft will be taking images of the Earth tonight - there might still be time to get your hair done. The two spacecraft are Cassini and ...
What is Citizen Science? 17 Jul 2013 | 11:57 pm
For better or worse citizen science has become a fashionable term, but what is it and why do people like it? Citizen Science is a big component in a larger movement of public participation and engagem...
Turgidity Timelapse: Tomato Plant Drinking Water 17 Jul 2013 | 03:20 pm
Plants aren’t something I know very much about, but I remember the concept of turgor pressure from my GCSEs. Plant cells absorb water a different way to the cells in our bodies because they contain ‘v...
