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Brian Clegg
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Period TV makers: please give a little more thought to trains
Every now and then I see something anachronistic in a period drama on TV and I can't stop nerd mode from firing up. It's quite often about trains. For some reason, period drama makers can spend vast amounts of money making sure the clothes look right (say), and often get the cars right. But, they seem to think, 'all trains are the same, aren't they?'One of the more entertaining examples of thi
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| Without doubt one of the most original science fiction books I've ever read. With a mix of narrative and reports (featuring occasional redaction-like antimimetic decays) we are introduced to the work of the Organisation, which takes on weird happenin ...more | |
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| Going on the cover you might think this was a political polemic - and admittedly there's an element of that - but the reason it's so good is quite different. It shows how behavioural economics and social psychology have led us astray by putting the f ...more | |
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| It's been over five years since I first reviewed Sarah Painter's Crow Investigations books, which has turned into a solid UK urban fantasy series. To reprise, although not strictly a police procedural (the main character, Lydia Crow is a private inve ...more | |
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| This book is something of a reboot. It was Neil deGrasse Tyson's first title, dating back to 1997, but was reissued 'fully revised and updated for the 21st century' in 2024. It's mostly a cut and paste book from the Q&A section in a magazine, despite ...more | |
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| The sequel to Artifact Space is another wrist-busting, high class space opera, again featuring a sort of Star Trek future but where the ships are primarily merchant/military instead of exploration/military. I gave the original book 5 stars, but I've ...more | |
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| Antigravity - the ability to overcome the pull of gravity - has been a fantasy for thousands of years and subject to more scientific (if impractical) fictional representation since H. G. Wells came up with cavorite in The First Men in the Moon. But i ...more | |
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| Antigravity - the ability to overcome the pull of gravity - has been a fantasy for thousands of years and subject to more scientific (if impractical) fictional representation since H. G. Wells came up with cavorite in The First Men in the Moon. But i ...more | |
“Newton’s law of gravitation. That’s all you need (with a spot of calculus to crunch the numbers) to work out how the Earth will orbit the Sun or how an apple will fall if you let it go at a certain height. The only trouble is that Newton had no idea how this gravity thing worked. His model was simply: ‘There is an attraction between bits of stuff, and let’s not bother about why.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“Famously, Einstein said that his ‘happiest thought’ occurred here: ‘I was sitting in a chair in the Patent Office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me. If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled.’ By thinking of someone falling, for example in a plummeting lift, Einstein had realised that it was impossible to distinguish acceleration and the pull of gravity. And working through the mathematical implications of this made it clear that gravity was an effect that could be produced by a distortion of space and time.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“The year 1992 should have been remembered as the 700th anniversary of the death of a man who changed the world. Yet the occasion passed without note. Few know of the remarkable achievements of someone who, more than any other, can be said to have invented science.”
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
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