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Dancing for Science

Posted by Gerhard Holtkamp Posted in SpaceTimeDreamer

What do South American dances have to do with space science? For the past ten years a quartet of satellites named Rumba, Salsa, Samba and Tango have been orbiting the Earth in kind of a formation dance yielding valuable insights into the plasma processes in the Earth's magnetosphere... Cluster is one of the Cornerstone missions ...

 

The Fritz Zwicky Paradoxon: the fourth failure of Newton...

Posted by Pavel Kroupa Posted in THE DARK MATTER CRISIS

The radical conclusion that Cold- or Warm-Darm-Matter cosmology ought to be discarded as a viable description of physical reality would imply, as a strict logical process, that this physical reality must be non-Newtonian in a certain physical regime which is found on galactic scales and beyond. This goes hand-in-hand with ...

 

Migraine and marihuana

Posted by Markus A. Dahlem Posted in Gray Matters

I just read a comment about my visual migraine aura video in YouTube The shaping and flashing of it is near perfect; however, it needs Color, and, some auras loop into a closed figure, while expanding outward. Your simulation seems most accurate near the end of it, when the aura is larger and wider. ...

 

First Human to Walk on the Moon Turns 80

Posted by Michael Khan Posted in GO FOR LAUNCH

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's most poignant sonnet " Mezzo Cammin " starts: Half of my life is gone, and I have let The years slip from me and have not fulfilled The aspiration of my youth, [...] Those select few among us who can claim that this does not apply to them are really lucky. ...

 

Explaining Religion - Conference at Bristol University,...

Posted by Michael Blume Posted in Biology of Religion

During the last years, the increasingly interdisciplinary and international evolutionary studies of religiosity and religions made tremendous progress. 'Explaining Religion 2010' is an interdisciplinary conference run by the University of Bristol's Department of Philosophy and the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre which ...

 

The 60th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in one blog post

Posted by Akshat Rathi Posted in Lindaunobel

Even before the meeting had begun the bloggers had started their job with  reflections on the Nobel city . The theme of the meeting was:  Educate .  Inspire .  Connect  and by the end of this blog post I hope to be able to put it across decisively that the meeting achieved ...

 
 
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