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Atom puns & jokes 2/n
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! Don’t trust atoms; they make up everything. PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it, remotely, at the same time, and think about the…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 3 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The first of four of Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — are available here – one and two (blog 1 of 11) and three and four (blog 2 of…
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Summer evening talk – “The Stars and the Planets … Stargazing for All” – 16 August 2023 @ 7:30 pm
Portswood Library, ‘Under the Dome’, Portswood Road, Southampton, United Kingdom, SO17 2NG PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it, remotely, at the same time, and think about the Cosmos. In the meantime, take care of yourself and if you can, someone else, too, because as…
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Atom puns & jokes 1/n
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows the first of some ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! Professor: what do you know about atoms?Me: very littleProfessor: aside from that? PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it, remotely,…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 2 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Continuing with Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — with examples of each in action. One and two (blog 1 of 11) are here. The third and fourth of these…
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“Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine …”
— Isaac Asimov (2 Jan 1920 – 6 Apr 1992) American author (of Russian parentage) and professor of biochemistry at Boston University who was a prolific author and editor of science fiction and non-fiction. He was a regular commentator on science and society and atheism and developed the three laws of robotics. Asimov was also…
Stargazing Guy 