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A stellar revision of the story of life 24 Apr 2012 | 08:58 pm
Climate Change: News and Comments and The Svensmark Hypothesis Svensmark’s Cosmic Jackpot Visible to the naked eye as the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades are the most famous of many surviving clusters o...
Quantum computing forges ahead 9 Mar 2012 | 09:58 am
Updating Magic Universe So what’s a Majorana fermion then? A news item in today’s Nature reminds me that last week it was all happening with quantum computing at a meeting of the American Physical S...
Climate Physics 101 3 Mar 2012 | 11:16 pm
Climate change: news and comments Sorry folks, cosmic rays really are in charge On this blog and others, most comments about my previous post “Yet another trick of cosmic rays” have been friendly...
Yet another trick of cosmic rays 2 Mar 2012 | 06:52 am
Climate Change: News and Comments In the climax to the Danes’ experiments, cloud seeds flout the theories Near to the end of the story that starts with stars exploding in the Galaxy and ends with ex...
Cosmic rays sank the Titanic 28 Feb 2012 | 11:21 am
Climate Change: News and Comments Full steam ahead for the real story of 20th Century warming Although It seems a strange thing to celebrate, the Titanic Festival in Belfast, where the ship was buil...
What Language on Mars? (2) 24 Jan 2012 | 10:41 am
Predictions Revisited The Chinese space programme Still catching up after Christmas, I’ve been reading an official report from China issued on 29 December, about their plans for space activities in ...
Dying comets probe the Sun 23 Jan 2012 | 07:15 am
Updating Magic Universe Debris traces the solar magnetic field What started as a bonanza for comet spotters becomes a new tool for exploring levels in the Sun’s atmosphere that have been hard to see...
The Sun and auroras for beginners 23 Jan 2012 | 07:00 am
Pick of the pics Our Explosive Sun by Pål Brekke In “Our Explosive Sun”, the picture has this caption. “A unique image of the planets close to the Sun observed with the LASCO telescope on SOHO. An o...
Utopia beats Dystopia 1 Dec 2011 | 04:17 am
Predictions Revisited Let’s lay Malthus to Rest After all that Halloween anguish about the global population reaching 7 billion, how refreshing to have an upbeat assessment of the world food situati...
Royal Society Winton Book Prize 19 Nov 2011 | 04:03 am
Uncategorized In Praise of Idleness That was the title of a famous essay by Bertrand Russell. Being myself a lifelong victim of the protestant work ethic, I was impressed at the Royal Society last n...
