TED Tuesday: Future of SETI
The SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for...
astronomy
astronomy
TED Tuesday: Fly me to Saturn
Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its...
TED Tuesday: Our queer Universe
Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for thinking the improbable by looking at how the human...
TED Tuesday: Shedding light on Dark matter
Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and...
Sunday Spotlight: The Virtual Telescope
A few days back I got an invite to join a group on LinkedIn. It...
Sunday Spotlight: Jason Martell and Xfacts
Jason Martell is a researcher and lecturer specialising and interested in connections between ancient knowledge...
Sunday spotlight: The Land of No Horizon
A few months back I read the book ‘The land of no horizon’ (ISBN: 978-0-646-41057-9,...
Son of God or Sun of God?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vm_wh-84D8] I few days ago I came across a very interesting series of three videos...
Sumerian cosmology
[Image source: Zecharia Sitchin’s wesbite] This blog entry was originally going to be a summary...
Antikythera mechanism replicated
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrfMFhrgOFc&hl=] A few sponge divers from the Aegean island of Symi discovered an a