NASA the party-pooper
Fifty years ago today, US President Dwight Eisenhower signed legislation that created NASA...
Physics TV
Robotic rats, electric eels and teacher training are just three of the topics covered...
Racing with the Sun
UPDATE: The race was won by the Michigan solar car, which travelled from Dallas to Calgary in a little under 52 hours....
'What a long strange trip it's been'
The Grateful Dead's famous lyric describes exactly how I feel after reading a paper on the arXiv preprint server...
A pawn in the string wars?
The July 21 issue of The New Yorker landed on my doormat this morning...
Putting the 'Warp' into Warp Drive
Tabloid headlines like "Physicists want to annihilate Jupiter to reach Rigel 7" will do the physics community no good...
Reliving the 'Victorian Internet'
Sending messages around the world by telegram seems very much old hat...
On a lake in southern Germany
I am spending this week on an island in Lake Constance in southern Germany at the 58th meeting of Nobel Laureates at Lindau
A real gem on arXiv
I spent an hour or so this morning trawling through the arXiv preprint server where I spotted "Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila"...
Going once…a first edition of Copernicus’s magnum opus
Most of you will never have raised an arm at Christie's auction house...
