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| Podcast title | AlunSalt
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| Description | Ancient Science and the Science of Ancient Things | |
| Updated | Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:35:02 +0000 | |
| Category | Society & Culture Science & Medicine |
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1. Thony Christie on Hevelius http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: If you have any interest in the history of astronomy you should be following The Renaissance Mathematicus blog and this post, The last great naked eye astronomer, is a perfect example of why. This is a post about Johannes Hevelius who has to be one of the most famous unheard of astronomers ever. That doesn’t [...] |
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2. Catching up with posts http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: As a housekeeping note, I realised I’d been posting bloggy-type entries on my Google+ account. I’ve moved versions over here, with the dates as when they were posted over there. Anyone who wanted to comment, but was wary of signing up for a G+ account can add their thoughts over here now. |
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3. What’s the difference between archaeology and grave-robbing? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The HMS Victory (not that one) is set to be recovered according to the BBC and many other sites. You could say speed. Archaeology is an enormously inefficient of robbing graves. These days archaeologists can take years to study one barrow (an earth mound marking a burial) while in the 18th century aristocrats used to [...] |
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4. One small slip for man, one giant mistake for space heritage? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: A comment on Who owns space history, the public or the astronauts? posted by +Universe Today. There’s a checklist from the Apollo XIII mission owned(?) by Jim Lovell. It’s an interesting puzzle from an astro-heritage point of view and something I’ve not given any thought to at all. In fact there’s two puzzles. One is [...] |
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5. Cervix watching http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Emily Baldwin @astroemz on Twitter is going in for a loop excision next week to remove pre-cancerous cells from her cervix. As she says it’s a routine operation, but it’s only routine for the professionals. It’s not routine for her so she is understandably nervous. She’s blogging on what happens to help raise awareness of [...] |
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6. Snapseed review http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’ve had a quick play with Snapseed for Mac. Below is a neutral photo of a greenhouse at Kew exported from Aperture, and one after a couple of minutes of editing. Snapseed works with a modified form of Nik’s UPoint interface. You can make global changes, but on some features you can make masked adjustments. [...] |
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7. HDR and Reality http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: A comment on this link HDR: Love it or or Leave it? posted by +Matt Shalvatis. This has been on my ‘to-blog-about’ list for years. On the one side there’s the artistic effect, which you can debate. I get the impression HDR is a personal taste, so telling people it’s the right or wrong way [...] |
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8. Can you preserve sites on the Moon? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: This might sound like it’s either mad, who’s going to damage sites on the moon? or bleeding obvious, if we could still see Columbus’s first footprint on Hispaniola we’d preserve it, right? As the NYT points out, the Google X Prize is aimed at making the Moon more accessible and that will have knock-on effects [...] |
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9. Psychic Readings are True http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Yes, it’s a deliberately sceptic-baiting title. The plan is: it winds people up, they point out how I’m wrong and I learn something. I’ve not completely mad though. Obviously not all psychic readings are true. It would take an enormous talent to ignore reality that has shown many readings to be false or fraudulent. If [...] |
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10. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown http://feedproxy.google.com/~r... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’ve known about this book for a while, but the title put me off reading it. It sounds too smug to me, and while there are reasons for reclassifying Pluto I don’t think it’s something astronomers could be smug about. Planet was not a term invented by astronomers, it came from popular culture in the [...] |
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