Science Videos Search Engine. SmarterEveryDay. Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 86. Good question – How can a human being get a perspective on the size of the universe – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks. Tallguywrites: The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield. A fifteen page story about the MMR vaccination controversy. As ever, I'm sure a few spelling errors have slipped past me. Feel free to point any out so I can correct them. The reference links for the strip are in the next blog entry. Now! Let's have a heated debate! 2013 update. Since I wrote this blog entry, this cartoon strip as well as many others on such subjects as homeopathy, chiropratic, evolution, and the supposed NASA Moon hoax landings, have been published in a book: Science Tales in the UK (Myriad Edtions) and How To Fake A Moon Landing in the US and Canada (Abrams).
I am Darryl Cunningham and this is my main blog. The Science of Predicting the Future - Starts With A Bang. “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” -Niels Bohr What’s going to happen next? It’s perhaps the most important thing to know if we want to be prepared for practically anything in our lives. And without even thinking about it, most of us are actually very good at this in a huge number of aspects of our lives.
For example… Image credit: Crazy Adventures in Parenting. I was hungry at work today, and I was prepared for it. In my case, it’s because I’ve been in this situation before: thousands upon thousands of times before, in fact. Image credit: Johnny Nichols, 2008. This is a fabulous example of a pre-scientific prediction! Image credit: screenshot from weather.com (L) and the Old Farmers' Almanac (R). Sometimes, this type of pre-scientific prediction is the best we can do. Image credit: NASA / Paul Chodas, Jon Giorgini & Don Yeomans / JPL NEO Program Office. In other cases — like meteorology — the uncertainties are very large. Image credit: CNN.com. Numberphile - Videos about Numbers and Stuff. Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos.
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