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Category Archives: general science
Scenic Saturday: A Special Place and Time
A few weeks ago, on an afternoon in London, I took in the Thames and then headed a few miles down river to Greenwich and the Royal Observatory, a prime attraction for map nerds around the world. Unfortunately, my visit … Continue reading
Drawing sharp boundaries in a fuzzy world
Humans are natural splitters. We have an innate tendency to look at the world and mentally sort everything into different categories, and grades, and entities: this is one thing, that is another; it was this, now it’s that. Our perception … Continue reading
What is a manned space programme actually for?
I bet more people currently know the name of a valiant little Mars rover than know the names of the current astronauts on the ISS.
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Geospatial data and the web (#scio10 preparation)
What’s available, what should be available, what tools do we need to use them?
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Fox News: volcanic coal kills off dinosaurs before they even evolved
I’d prefer churnalism to gratuitous insertion of wrong.
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