Tag Archives: science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Feeling Sick? Stay Home! (June 2020)

Some Recent Covid Tweets

One of the biggest stumbling blocks to overcoming Covid is people who act like Covid is already over… When COVID started I thought the best thing to do was to learn all I could about what it was and how to avoid it. I thought that the people I cared about would want this information […]

DART Impact Video

Follow up to a post from last week… Same video as before of ATLAS observing the DART impact, but tracked sidereally (with the stars). Each frame is about 40 seconds, and the entire sequence is about two hours. pic.twitter.com/p7Sgvfu2CK — ATLAS Project (@fallingstarIfA) September 27, 2022  

Friday Fun Link – NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

No big deal – NASA is only planning to shoot an asteroid out of space in a day or so!  

Secular Sunday – The Longer Lasting Harm of 9/11?

9/11 was caused by religious extremism but an ever-longer lasting harm of this attack is the culture of conspiracy theories that sprang up around the attacks which continues to affect our society in ways ranging from vaccine hesitancy to lack of faith in government to the idea that mass shootings are actually false-flag operations are […]

Walking Sharks…

Confirmation of evolution and nightmare fuel, all rolled up in one! These fins were made for walking! #SharkWeek ? Island of the Walking Sharks pic.twitter.com/ivppSWKng1 — Shark Week (@SharkWeek) July 28, 2022  

It’s Science!

Pace and Sasha are both done school as of today and in reviewing their report cards, I was particularly impressed with Pace’s mark in his Science Final… Come to think of it, this feels like the mirror image of when I wrote a math test in Grade 7, was absolutely sure I got everything right […]

A Few Recent Covid Threads

Even though “Covid Is Over”™  according to many, it’s not really.  Far from it actually… Britain is being swamped by yet another Covid wave — 2% in England are currently infected, 1 in 30 in Scotland: 1.4 million people in the UK, a stark 40% week-on-week rise in prevalence. Hospitalisations highest since April https://t.co/hFiriFHY3r — […]

TED Talk – Sleep Is Your Super Power

But Make Sure That Report Is Done and You Take Your Breaks As Assigned!

The Age of Extinction Is Here.