ReviewBooks
The Oracle Of Night: The History And Science Of Dreams by Sidarta Ribeiro (book review).
Considering we all have dreams, you would have thought analysis would have started before Freud but he was making connections to how the…
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Science and engineering.
December 2021
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Why we shouldn’t go looking for extraterrestrials (science video).
Humanity is faced with a dilemma when confronted with the apparently empty cosmos. We’re keen to know whether we’re the only ones in…
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What is the Origin of the Universe? (science video)
John Michael Godier talks with Prof. Geraint F. Lewis about how through the elegance of mathematics, humanity have successfully deciphered much of the…
ReviewBooks
2022 Yearbook Of Astronomy edited by Brian Jones (book review).
For any budding or experienced amateur astronomer or anywhere in-between, the ‘2022 Yearbook Of Astronomy’ should be on their Christmas list. It has…
November 2021
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How colonising space will help save our planet (science video).
Many people feel that colonising space is necessary to not keep all of our eggs in one basket, in case anything happens to…
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Is it possible that Planet 9 has been discovered? (science video)
Has the shy Planet Nine finally been discovered? The latest publication, A search for Planet 9 in the IRAS data, by Emeritus Professor…
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Dinosaur-avenger anti-asteroid mission successfully launched by NASA (science news).
The world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART),…
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Settling the Solar System (science video).
In this half-hour-long science documentary by Isaac Arthur, we investigate how settling our solar system may follow a variety of techniques across many…
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Hunting for alien technical signals (Dr. Avi Loeb interview).
In this fascinating interview, Dr. Avi Loeb is interviewed by John Michael Godier of Event Horizon-fame about the Galileo Project‘s purpose, which is…
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Putting The Science In Fiction edited/co-written by Dan Koboldt (book review).
I do think that there should be more books like ‘Putting The Science In Fiction’ about. Not just covering the sciences, but popular…
ReviewMovie books
The Science Of Sci-Fi Cinema edited by Vincent Piturro (book review).
In the introduction to ‘The Science Of Sci-Fi Cinema’, author Vincent Piturro points out that since 2010, at a Denver SF show, he…
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The Mars expedition that satisfied the new and ludicrous NASA requirements in the quest for life (science video).
The list of prerequisites published by NASA for those searching for extraterrestrial life is almost insurmountable. However, a Mars mission from more than…