Science Storytelling 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…
Nerdy stuff 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…
Stream of consciousness 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…
Stream of consciousness 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,…
Nerdy stuff 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…
Stream of consciousness 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…
Stream of consciousness 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…
Nerdy stuff 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…
Stream of consciousness 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…
