Avoiding the Echo Chamber
Test ideas by experiments and observations. Build on those ideas that pass the test. Reject the ones that fail. Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything. Accept these terms, and the cosmos...
Hamilton's Thoughts Exploring Perspectives
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Edward Jenner and the first vaccine
This is the story of Edward Jenner, who saved more lives than the work of any other human being. His discovery eventually led to the eradication of smallpox that took 300 – 500 million people to...
Great Red Spot of Jupiter photographed by Juno probe
NASA has just released the raw images of the Great Red Spot (GRS) that were photographed by the Juno Probe on the July 10 at 9:55 p.m. EDT. The probe captured photographs of the GRS...
Space always inspires
I’ve been thinking a while on some of my favorite quotes on space. It’s fair to say that the night sky is a gateway to the imagination that poets, writers and many others have...
The closest moon since 1948
On the 14th November we were treated to the closest moon to the earth since the 26th January 1948! It won’t get this close again until 2034, so if you missed it you’ve a...
A study in Smoke
The night had fallen and I was starting to get bored… we were approaching 14 hours of no power and it was beginning to grate on me. I had already finished reading Elon Musk: Tesla,...
The Hunter’s Moon
This is an image I took last night of the Hunter’s moon which is also a Supermoon! I’ve uploaded the large version so click this image to see it (you maybe have to click...
New Shepard In-Flight Escape a Success!
Many people tuned in to watch Blue Origin’s New Shepard In-flight escape test and saw the crew capsule successfully detach from the rocket booster with 70,000lb of thrust, before making a safe descent back to...
A Caribbean Moonrise from Puerto Rico
Sometimes you just happen to be in the right place at the right time and other times careful planning pays off. In my case it was just a matter of luck that I happened...
A Lunar Study
With the telescope already setup I decided to do a lunar study. It had been a while since I had last done this and I wanted to try some high resolution close up images....
Lunar base plans
The idea of a lunar base has been around for a long time, in fact, as part of George Bush’s plan Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), the USA was to have a lunar outpost...
Dust storms on Mars
Dust storms on Mars will come as no surprise to those who watched or read of Mark Watney getting stranded on Mars in ‘The Martian’. While in the movie the dust storm was a...
What they aren’t telling you about Toxicity
You’ve likely come across articles on Facebook or health blogs that warn about toxic chemicals in products. Typically they mention the name of the chemical, list the dangerous effects, maybe a personal story and tell you...
A mind-blowing journey along the Galactic Plane
This is one of those journeys you take and have to pick your jaw off the floor afterwards. Take an 8 minute journey along our galactic plane in up to 4K definition as imaged by the...
Titan II Missile Silo
MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) Using the threat of such overwhelming violence if attacked to deter any nuclear attack. The end of the second world war had ushered in a new era, the nuclear era and with...
Send my name to Mars? Don’t mind if I do!
Ok, I’m off to Mars and here’s my boarding pass! I’ll be heading to the planet sometime between the 4th and 30th March 2016 along with 572,863 others on a NASA lander. I’ll admit, it’s going to...
Moms +SocialGood 2015: Be the change
What kind of world do you want for your family in 2030? This was the question asked at the annual Moms +SocialGood conference held in the New York Times Center. The morning and afternoon sessions touched...
Who decides the vaccination schedule?
It’s come to my attention that there seems to be a misunderstanding circulating of who exactly determines our children’s vaccination schedule. It seems that some are under the impression that it is the pharmaceutical companies...
