Category: Science
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How to Follow Hurricane Irma
How to Follow Hurricane Irma. A good explanation of available hurricane/cyclone resources. And what not to do. Update: This graphic is good.
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Eclipse data
Xavier M. Jubier runs a web site listing five millennia’s worth of data on solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and transits, both past and future. Database searches, tables, and maps — oh my! The next total solar eclipse (pictured), which occurs on July 2, 2019, might be a little difficult to experience.
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Exploratorium: How to predict total solar eclipses
How to predict total solar eclipses. This video by the Exploratorium is excellent. If you are outside the path of the 2017 eclipse, don’t miss their livestream. Hat tip: Kottke.
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Brave faith
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe. “Palmer Joss” in the novel Contact by Carl Sagan
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Atmospheric CO2 Visualized
CO2 data for the last 800,000 years in a short presentation.
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2014 : What Scientific Idea is Ready For Retirement?
2014 : What Scientific Idea is Ready For Retirement?. You’ll get smarter reading this list from Edge.org.
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How Far is it to Mars?
How Far is it to Mars? A very cool graphical representation of the distance from Earth to Mars.
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on Understanding
“There is a difference between righteousness and self-righteousness. The righteous are humble, the self-righteous are proud. The righteous understand doubt, the self-righteous only certainty. The righteous see the good in people, the self-righteous only the bad. The righteous leave you feeling enlarged, the self-righteous make you feel small. It is easy enough to befriend the […]
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Science vs. Engineering
Science is about what is; engineering is about what can be. Neil Armstrong Hat tip: Jack Ganssle.
