Modern tomato

5 Oct 20195 Oct 2019

Just thought I'd give you a heads-up: This will be the last post on this blog for a while. Social media will stay active. Alex “Tomatoes can be such a…

Kindness in all situations?

1 Oct 20191 Oct 2019

I appreciate that those of you who have asked the question I am about to discuss, have done so in direct messages. It gives me the opportunity to talk in…

A plant in Madeira, that’s all.

29 Sep 201920 Sep 2019

The inverted google image search gave me a Mexican plant. This is Madeira, though. Google doesn't know everything (yet, thankfully). Do you? What kind of plant is this? © 2019…

Technically, we still haven’t imaged the actual black hole…

26 Sep 201924 Sep 2019

Alright, that's not just nitpicking, that's misunderstanding what language is for. This, right there, with its global network of collaborators turning their telescopes on the same object at given times,…

Ping f…ing Pong

24 Sep 201916 Sep 2019

Look at this video, please do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRXbV7KrRw I could never move around like this, of course, but I did play well enough to disassemble my joints with the help of…

There’s a first try for everything

22 Sep 201920 Sep 2019

This one's, as you may have guessed, about making water streaming over stones look like silk. I thought, I'd stay away from the scene of the crime and rather crop…

Make no mistake, we’re serious about this

19 Sep 201910 Sep 2019

Yes. We are on our way back. We have lost much of the knowledge that brought us there in the first place, but we are on our way back. When…

Extrasomatic knowledge

17 Sep 201915 Sep 2019

Carl Sagan was the one who introduced me to the concept of "extrasomatic knowledge" through one of his books. As it appears, we have grown as a species due to…

Spooky beach

15 Sep 20197 Sep 2019

All powerful sun, lighting up a solar system...and here I stand, under a tiny cloud, as I apparently must, not getting its full blast in my face. Not that I…