If there’s one thing you watch today (well, other than wall-to-wall coverage of The Hobbit* and perhaps some videos of sorting algorithms explained through folk dance), it needs to be this. Secret Universe - The Hidden Life Of the Cell from pbbes on Vimeo. In this astonishing hour-long BBC documentary released just a month ago, […]
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TOSP Episode 12: November 28th 2011
[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] Welcome back to a very icy, buggy TOSP! This week, Elf and aimee talk about ice. Well, mostly ice. Brinicles, ice on Europa and even ice-related geoengineering in Mongolia. And undersea silk. Excitingly, however, they also talk with their first guest, Sciblogger Siouxsie Wiles of […]
Brinicle!
UPDATE: Please note - the picture below is a picture, not the video :) The link to the video is later in the post… Yep, that is, indeed, a real word. The Beeb, bless their cotton socks, has released some excerpts from their new the new BBC/Attenborough series Frozen Planet. Frozen Planet deals, as one […]
On homeopathics, and physics
After a somewhat extended sojourn, I have returned, once more, unto the breach. Dear friends. Just a brief one today, as I find my stride again, comprised of two bits. ————————- First up! Homeopathy. As y’all may have realised, I am most certainly not one of its proponents. Anything but, in fact (which reminds me, […]
Jellyfish, continued
The BBC’s posted this beautiful set of photographs of deep-sea jellyfish (honestly, I’m beginning to think I have a thing about these creatures).(I couldn’t use one of the beeb’s pictures, so have put in another cool jellyfish photo.)I think I like the…