Thursday Throughput: I Just Didn’t Want It To Be True Edition
I was peripherally involved in this research, which detected some of the highest energy photons every seen from a gamma-ray burst.
Category: Science and Technology
Briefly, on the STEM vs Humanities debate
It’s one thing to be critical of some of the excesses. It’s quite another to suggest that there’s something inherently wrong with people who work within STEM disciplines.
Thursday Throughput: Gamma-ray Bursts Are Bad Edition
GRBs are dangerous. They can kill. But it’s rare. There is one candidate nearby that could be dangerous. But we’re still figuring out whether it is.
Thursday Throughput: Nuclear Explosion Edition
So if you are standing next to a nuclear bomb, you will experience conditions similar to the core of the Sun. But…don’t worry. You won’t experience them for very long.
Thursday Throughput: Space Travel is Complicated Edition
I checked the calculations myself and this does appear to be accurate…
Thursday Throughput: Zebra Stripes and Supernovae
Yes, there are stars within a few hundred light years that will go supernova. No, we don’t have any way of predicting when it will happen.
Thursday Throughput: Arrakis, New Caprica, and Us
In the decades to come, we’re going to learn a lot about alien planets. It would not surprise me at all if we found ones like New Caprica or Arrakis.
Heisenberg’s Billboard
’90s music is messed up for the same reason my suburban Seattle city isn’t the most dangerous city in the United States. And that reason colors everything you consume on the internet
About that Clean Water and Air in West Virginia
There is much about environmental sciences/climate change debate that I do not know much about. The water and air in West Virginia? That I know about.
Thursday Throughput for 9/12/19
I don’t think there are enough exclamation points out there for me to express how gob-smacking this is.
Thursday Throughput for 8/22/19
A new treatment for Ebola, if administered early, can cut the fatality rate to 6%, a stunning reduction from the normal rate of 75%. We now have this and a working vaccine.
Greta Thurnberg’s Semi-slow Boat Upon the Stormy Seas
Which is exactly why, regardless of cause, adults should be slow if not completely adverse to putting children out in front of their political causes.
Thursday Throughput for 8/1/19
I’m not one of the “we have 12 years to save the planet” doomsayers. But it does feel like we are approaching an inflection point. We will survive; but our options for how we will survive are narrowing rapidly.
Josh Hawley Is From the Government and He’s Here to Help
Josh Hawley, like all ambitious men, is telling you who and what he is about. We should listen.
Tech Tuesday 07/22/19 – Cool Electric Motorcycles Edition
And if that isn’t the coolest damn thing you read all day…
Thursday Throughput for July 18, 2019
People talk about American Greatness. Well, astrophysics, if I do say so myself, is one the places where America is truly great.
Tech Tuesday – Spooky Action Edition
To be honest, this is the first I’ve heard of Octonions, and when I first read the title, I wasn’t entirely certain they weren’t talking about a layered root vegetable.
Thursday Throughput for July 4, 2019
This has happened to me. More than once. In her defense, I think she was probably just nervous. So I post it more for amusement than mocking.
Thursday Throughput for June 20, 2019
I really hope to live long enough to discover that we aren’t completely alone, even if the neighbors are only one-celled organisms.
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