[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] Greetings, listeners! This week, aimee was away in Melbourne at the inagural AdaCamp barcamp. So Elf brought in his good friend Haritina Mogosanu, who works with KiwiSpace and World Space Week, to co-host with him. They talked about the number of planets in our galaxy, […]
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A bit of Friday fun: the Galaxy Song
Monty Python, as is widely known, are the stuff of legend. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk[/youtube] And, because it’s Friday and one is allowed to let one’s hair/pants/whatever else down, I thought I’d post a little astronomical fun: the Galaxy Song, from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life*. Enjoy, and may your weekend be marvellous :) —————- * Not […]
A year on, a reprise or two
So, I’ve now officially been at this blogging thing for a little over a year. And, inspired by Darcy’s latest post (feat. the number 191), I thought I’d, well, also have a small celebration. Yay! /dons party hat and places squeaker at the ready Also, when sciblogs syndicated my content, it didn’t pull in the […]
Space geekiness: a lecture
I really, really hate it when events don’t have an online presence. I like broadcasting things. Not to be able to do so easily, particularly when it’s something interesting, is upsetting. I have fitlets of pique thereover. As it were. Anyhoo, on to the point of this post: tomorrow, in Wellington, there’s going to be […]
Dark say what now?
Dark energy. Dark matter. Anti-matter. Que? Yes, I know it looks like it’s some sort of puzzle, and the next in the series is anti-energy or some such thing. But nope, it’s not. And for anyone who’s familiar with these concepts (or adept at using Wiki), feel free to stop reading now. The reason for […]
On the matter of time, and how the past crystallises out of the future
Yes, you read the title correctly. In a fascinating paper written by George Ellis, of me ol’ alma mater the University of Cape Town and Tony Rothman, from Princeton University in New Jersey, they posit that the place where this crystallisation occurs is, interestingly, the present. Not as in gift (although the present is a […]