130 Writerly Posts Tagged science

May 27, 25 What’s the best image to represent evolution?
May 20, 25 Hot croissants and yeast farts
Oct 2, 21 Key-pat panics
Sep 4, 21 Trying to see the Milky Way in 3D
Sep 2, 21 Transparent sodium under pressure
Aug 19, 21 How the climate emergency accelerates
Jul 20, 21 Out of the frying pan of COVID, into the fire
Jul 15, 21 Carl Sagan’s Star Wars criticisms
May 29, 21 An impossibly old star
May 5, 21 Relativistic star systems
Apr 18, 21 Misbehaving muons
Feb 1, 21 Monarch butterfly counts in California
Jan 19, 21 Why so massive?
Jan 5, 21 Thermopolium
Nov 20, 20 Dwarf galaxies are my new favourite thing in astronomy
Sep 18, 20 Hypercanes
Sep 14, 20 A new type of Goldilocks zone for life
Sep 3, 20 Best sprite photo I have seen so far
Aug 21, 20 SETI marches on
Aug 8, 20 The “asymps” are driving the pandemic
Jul 17, 20 Critter counting
Jun 25, 20 It’s life, Jim, but it looks weird
Jun 16, 20 “Books” so bad they don’t deserve the name
May 31, 20 Beating the “wrong” out of science writing
Feb 25, 19 Hi from Christie! An impressive coincidence
Nov 28, 18 Deep view of Andromeda galaxy beautifully shows the vastness of space
Aug 10, 18 Gaps between galaxies versus solar systems
Jul 17, 18 Corpse-flower viewing and private orientation
Jul 12, 18 First-rate sci-fi
Jun 23, 18 Nature at it’s weirdest and creepiest
Apr 14, 18 Seeing stars
Mar 30, 18 A true oddball of a galaxy
Sep 15, 17 Toby Ziegler on scuba diving
Jan 20, 17 Meat minimalism
Dec 1, 16 Decades of average satellite imagery of global cloud cover
Nov 7, 16 The illusion of knowing
Mar 7, 16 Cold or flu? There’s no way to know
Oct 16, 15 Actually maybe aliens at work: the plausibility of stellar-scale alien engineering
Jun 28, 15 Maple canopy
Jun 22, 15 A breakdown of trust in science
Jun 10, 15 Pretty predator
Mar 14, 15 The Secret Anarchy of Science
Feb 15, 15 Huge, gorgeous astronomy photos
Jan 12, 15 The shithouse porcupine
Nov 23, 14 AAS on The Shirt
Nov 14, 14 Beauty shots
Nov 5, 14 SPLAIN TIME PLZ!!!
Sep 14, 14 Owly
Sep 3, 14 Waves crossing
Sep 2, 14 Hyperlapse
Aug 26, 14 Exploring Spanish Banks
Aug 20, 14 Forest
Jul 21, 14 Fully understand science
Jun 29, 14 Midnight sun selfie
Jun 6, 14 A real vacation
May 3, 14 After antibiotics
Apr 28, 14 This ain’t over
Apr 24, 14 Like gecko feet!
Mar 3, 14 “Sent from Broca’s Area”
Feb 7, 14 Creepy medical tour of the past
Oct 24, 13 Pseudo-science is all grown up
Sep 29, 13 No comment
Sep 25, 13 Triple trunks
Sep 17, 13 How tsunamis work (plus bonus cool illusion)
Aug 28, 13 The burn burns
Jul 27, 13 Transparent animals
Jul 20, 13 Summer leaves
Jul 11, 13 The Tunguska explosion explained!
Jun 24, 13 The Impossible ★★★☆☆
Jun 24, 13 Chasing Ice ★★★★☆
Apr 20, 13 Life on Earth: Dazzling interactive animations, and not much else
Mar 30, 13 The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
Mar 3, 13 Spoiler alert! The fate of every successful species is to wipe itself out
Feb 13, 13 The Sonic Hedgehog Gene
Feb 13, 13 One of the biggest boners in ethical philosophy
Jan 11, 13 Fix the file-drawer effect!
Jan 9, 13 Giant squid filmed
Dec 14, 12 It’s science
Nov 11, 12 Lone tree hill
Nov 8, 12 Wet leaf
Nov 6, 12 Lit up tree
Aug 19, 12 Gabriola sandstone & glamour
Aug 6, 12 Martian bandwidth
Jul 14, 12 Brain tingling
Jul 10, 12 Happy to be alive
Jul 9, 12 Octopus attack on a seagull
Jun 12, 12 Torturing data
Jun 6, 12 The knowledge gap
Apr 19, 12 Astronomy hobby rebooted!
Mar 25, 12 The deep cosmos at 264 pixels per inch: a monster astrophoto on the new iPad
Mar 9, 12 Ice shrapnel
Feb 23, 12 School + work = oomph
Feb 5, 12 History of Medical Discoveries
Jan 2, 12 What the actual fuck, biology?
Dec 28, 11 Galileo, the first modern scientist
Dec 26, 11 Being a geek
Dec 8, 11 Jury is out
Nov 23, 11 Subatomic comets
Nov 23, 11 From the Department of Crazy Waste
Sep 23, 11 The far side of Saturn
Sep 23, 11 Not exactly “shocked”
Sep 20, 11 The straw man of climate change denial
Aug 24, 11 Snakes!
Aug 19, 11 Southern Gulf Islands
Jun 4, 11 Ice erection
Jun 1, 11 Neat Canada goose behaviour
May 10, 11 Canyon
May 1, 11 A SETI Infographic: Priorities of the Human Species
Apr 24, 11 Wading at Buntzen
Mar 31, 11 Solar System Ebook/App for the iPad
Mar 31, 11 The Known Universe
Mar 2, 11 What do you think science is?
Feb 14, 11 The roundest object in the world
Jan 26, 11 Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
Jan 5, 11 Dawkins on the horror of the “circle of life”
Dec 24, 10 The worst that can happen is we can all die in the food riots!
Dec 24, 10 An Alien Earth in the Oceans
Dec 11, 10 Jellies
Dec 3, 10 God’s text message
Nov 28, 10 Australian science priorities
Nov 21, 10 Astronaut describes the view in more detail than we usually get
Nov 20, 10 Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be ★★★★★
Oct 22, 10 My favourite Sagan quote
Oct 14, 10 Immune strength
Sep 18, 10 The craziest thing I have ever found in my salad
Sep 17, 10 Scientists have better things to do than debate “intelligent design”