Neil deGrasse Tyson is discussing his book “The Pluto Files” … basically recounting a few thousand years of finding things in the night sky, naming them and building an understanding of what they are … case in point: (now dwarf planet 😉 ) Pluto … including his hypothesis on why Americans in particular get so worked up about Pluto not being a planet any more. 😀
Tag: Science
To Hell with Pi
To Hell with π … long live τ. 😉
The way it’s presented, it makes sense: it’s concise, consistent and more intuitive.
What science is about
Science is not about what’s true or what might be true; science is about what people with originally diverse view points can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.
Dr. Lee Smolin on the panel of the 2011 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Learning at the Expense of Sleep is Bad
It seems learning at the expense of sleep is actually bad … I had a feeling this might be the case 😉
Amplifiying Subtle Changes in Videos
I was pointed to an awesome piece of research titled “Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World.”
They have developed algorithms that allow them to amplify subtle changes in videos (color, movement) … and select desired frequencies at that. They have an awesome demonstration video:
8 steps to success
Arstechnica has a nice piece on how to do science fraud and minimizing the risk of being caught. 😛