Come for the science, stay for the stories. Because we need both.
Without food we starve, without energy we huddle in the cold. And it is through widespread loss of memory that civilisations are at risk of falling into a looming dark age. (1400 words)
The technological train of energy market disruption has left the station. How fast will it pick up speed? (3200 words)
How big might the bubble be, and who gets hurt if it pops? The trillion pound gorilla. (2200 words)
Does our love of the new and strange, both in literature and science, flow from the same wellspring? On the restorative power of surprise. (900 words)
A few thoughts, prompted by the film. (800 words)
How can we tell a new technology has become humanized? When we begin to play with it. (800 words + videos; approx. 30 mins. reading/viewing)
One astronomer’s dimpled pie is another’s cratered moon. How can our mind’s eye learn to see the new and unexpected? (3900 words)
From past to present, into the future: the flow of time is central to human experience. Why isn’t it central to physics? (3600 words)
An interview with Rob Ferret of Wisconsin Public Radio. The stars, Polynesian voyaging, human exploration of the solar system. It’s all here. (12 mins. listening time)
For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how to look up? (3600 words)
The Icarus Question 