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Watch: “Astrophe” – The Feeling of Being Stuck on Earth

December 12, 2016 • Astronomy, Exploration, Miscellaneous, Totally Rad • Views: 2288

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a Youtube channel that coins terms for emotions that don’t have a name in the English language. Astrophe is a word coined by creator John Koenig describing the feeling of being...
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

• Albert Einstein •
ESA aimed at Mars and …

October 19, 2016 • Astronomy, Exploration, Miscellaneous • Views: 2469

Wednesday morning, 100,000 people were watching the live stream of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission’s rendezvous with its target. There were interviews with scientists, a countdown to landing,...
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Microcosmos – bugs are aliens that are here

September 28, 2016 • Biology, Environment, Miscellaneous, Resources, Totally Rad • Views: 3032

To me, one of the more incredible feelings in the world is to notice the astonishing detail and wonder of a thing that previously felt totally familiar and mundane. Bugs. Bugs bring this feeling. Bugs are so everywhere...
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Sci-Fi Friday: The Looking Planet by Eric Law Anderson

September 9, 2016 • Miscellaneous, Space, Totally Rad • Views: 2372

Imagine if our universe, and our solar system were created by hyper-advanced aliens in this magnificent short film! And be sure to check out the film’s website here....
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Our universities fail the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

• Heather Wilson •
Chase Past Tornadoes with the Tornado History Project

June 10, 2016 • Environment, Miscellaneous, Physics, Resources, Sciences • Views: 4695

The spring and summer months mark the height of tornado activity in the United States. In fact, the US is a hotspot for tornadic activity, with around one thousand tornadoes, on average, annually. (Canada as a nation...
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Science Fiction Friday: Code 8

April 15, 2016 • Miscellaneous, Totally Rad • Views: 2140

Code 8 is a short film not of the type that is typically posted on You Can Science, but good scifi none-the-less. This short imagines a near future where a percentage of the population have special abilities, and are...
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Science Fiction Friday: The Last Job on Earth by Moth Collective

April 1, 2016 • Education, Miscellaneous, Resources, Technology • Views: 2991

The Last Job on Earth, by Moth Collective, envisions the possible negative effects of a world where machines have taken over our jobs. This is a very real fear for some people, as automation is becoming more and more a...
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Science Fiction Friday: Consumed by Andreas Wannerstedt

March 18, 2016 • Biology, Chemistry, Environment, Miscellaneous, Resources, Totally Rad • Views: 2217

onsumed is a computer animated short film by Andreas Wannerstedt. The short is completely CGI, and gorgeously made. The story centers around a lab-made self replicating substance meant to replace food for an...
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Space People

March 18, 2016 • Astronomy, Exploration, Miscellaneous, Physics, Resources, Sciences, Space, Totally Rad • Views: 3366

HowManyPeopleAreInSpaceRightNow.com he fact that this URL exists means that we live in an extraordinary time. People, not so different from us (besides their packed resumes), are above. Not only in the occasional jet...
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Brain Power (Part 1) – Uncertainty Principle the podcast

March 15, 2016 • Biology, Education, Miscellaneous, Resources, Uncertainty Principle • Views: 1537

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Start Doing Astronomy with Stellarium

February 7, 2016 • Astronomy, Education, Miscellaneous, Resources, Space • Views: 2930

ne of the biggest issues with map-making that persists to this day is translating spherical geometry to a euclidean plane; that is, it’s impossible to accurately portray the surface of a ball on a flat surface....
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The World of the Invisible; from Uncertainty Principle the Podcast

February 1, 2016 • Miscellaneous, Resources, Uncertainty Principle • Views: 1949

Be sure to follow Uncertainty Principle on Soundcloud at Soundcloud.com/UncdertaintyPrinciple or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Also please consider becoming a patron on Patreon. Your help improves the show and...
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Explore Earth’s rocks with Macrostrat.org

January 26, 2016 • Environment, Exploration, Miscellaneous, Technology, Totally Rad • Views: 7332

Geologists, for better or worse, have been wandering the globe for a couple hundred years now, meticulously mapping every outcrop, moraine, fossil bed, and fold they can find. At this point in history we’ve got a...
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Thriftbooks.com: Why you should buy used

November 27, 2015 • Education, Miscellaneous, Resources, Totally Rad • Views: 2178

Thriftbooks is one of those things that sound, initially, too good to be true. If you’re a book lover with a small budget, a college student looking for new textbooks, or don’t want to spend too much money...
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Astronomy Sketch of the Day (ASOD)

November 2, 2015 • Astronomy, Exploration, Miscellaneous, Space, Totally Rad • Views: 2317

Prior to our being spoilt by the regular image publishings of organizations like NASA and ESO, astronomy was a difficult practice with a long road leading up to where we are now. The vast changes we have gone through in...
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Sci-Fi Friday: The Sentinel by Arthur C Clarke

October 30, 2015 • Miscellaneous, Resources, Space, Totally Rad • Views: 6762

Arthur C Clarke was a twentieth century science fiction author and futurist. Clarke is perhaps most well known for his work with filmmaker Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey, writing the novel version as well as...
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Look: The Hubble Telescope’s 25th anniversary photograph

October 7, 2015 • Astronomy, Exploration, Miscellaneous, Physics, Sciences, Space, Totally Rad • Views: 1243

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SciFi Friday: The Last Question by Isaac Asimov

October 2, 2015 • Astronomy, Education, Exploration, Miscellaneous, Physics, Resources, Space, Totally Rad • Views: 10612

Isaac Asimov was a very prolific science fiction and nonfiction writer of the twentieth century. He is well known for his Foundation series of books and I, Robot. He was also a professor of biochemistry at Boston...
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