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Recently I’ve installed a new weather station on top of my house. I’ve done it partly because my inner geek wants to know everything about everything, partly because I need it for some software development I’m doing . I’ve always suspected that the weather was really interesting, now I’m sure of it....
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Take a break from the hustle and bustle of business, take time to appreciate the wonder of the natural world. An astronomical rarity occurs on the evening of 15th April. About 20:25, after sunset, look to the western horizon and you’ll be able to see the new Moon , and a little higher in the sky, the...
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I picked up this video from @SpaceFellowship onTwitter. It shows the entire universe as we know it today, correctly scaled according to the latest scientific knowledge. http://spacefellowship.com/2009/12/18/video-of-the-known-universe/ Share this post: | | |
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Today, for the first time in years, the machinery at Lancaster University suddenly ground into action and sent me a text message informing me of a “Possible Sudden Storm Commencement”. [ Update 18:15 - Lancaster University emailed to say it was a false alarm caused by "man made disturbances...
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“The true wealth of all nations comes from clean rivers, healthy soil and most importantly, a rich biodiversity of life”. “…we are not what we think we are. We are not the masters of creation. No matter how sophisticated our technology has become, the simple fact is that we are not separate from nature...
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Inspired by the Met Office’s Climate Projections 2009 , I decided to try my own climate predictions. I found a dataset on the Met Office web site listing mean temperatures in central England from 1659 to 2009. I decided to do a bit of analysis. I pasted the data into Excel 2007 and produced this graph...
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A little while ago I blogged that I was concerned about the missing evidence linking global warming to the activity of humankind. There are plenty of people who will show you all sorts of evidence that the Earth's climate is changing – and with that I agree. However, what then generally happens is...
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Yellowstone National Park This Windows 7 desktop theme features the magical landscape of Yellowstone National Park , centred on Wyoming, USA. The park also extends into Montana to the north and Idaho to the west. The whole area is a boiling cauldron of geothermal activity, having more geysers and geothermal...
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I just spent a very enjoyable bank holiday weekend doing loads of cycling, mainly in the Bath/Bristol area along the Bath Bristol Railway Path, aka National Cycle Network route 4. At one point along the route I stopped to chat with a couple of guys from Sustrans . I think it was Joe Beck I spoke to....
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This post is mainly for my cohorts on the The Sky as a Cultural Resource course at University of Glamorgan. I run a Yahoo group that was originally created to support the Alien Worlds course. The idea is to build an independent community around the course material so that we can keep in touch during...
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2009 is International Year of Astronomy – a subject I’m keenly interested in. My readers who live in Wales may be interested to know that The University of Glamorgan is running a nearly-free course this year titled “ The Sky as a Cultural Resource ”, in celebration of 2009 international year of astronomy...
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Stephen Fry, in his blog “ The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry ” recounts a heated discussion he ad with an American gentleman regarding global warming. He postulates that people fall broadly into three groups in the debate, the Believers , the Deniers and the Fence Sitters . I’m a Fence Sitter, but...
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It’s not often you hear the words End of the World , Black Hole , Flying Saucer and Loch Ness Monster in the same utterance, so my interest was piqued when I heard exactly that on BBC’s The One Show tonight. Apparently, the Large Hadron Collider , a gargantuan particle accelerator in a 27Km tunnel straddling...
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Someone on my astronomy group sent me this image today. It shows the relative scale of all the stuff we can see out there in space. Some of those little pinpricks of light are a lot bigger than you might think. Share this post: | | |
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I was watching the Bill Gates keynote at CES the other day when one of the presenters gave a demo of Windows Live Photo Gallery stitching together a mosaic of images into a single panorama. I have a few panoramic images so I thought I'd give it a go, and I am so impressed with it! I decided to give...