Loves teaching Physics & Astronomy. CPhys. MInstP. PhD-ing at UCL on Antikythera Mechanism. Land Value Tax, Georgism and Practical Philosophy advocate.
London, England
Joined December 2014
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GCSE Astronomy website launch! We're online! Spread the word!
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It seems Prof. Alice Roberts has gone right off the deep end over on BlueSky. And apparently I'm a terrible person and a "misogynist", no less! 🤔
Some context. Last year Roberts, a biologist, paleopathologist and sometime TV presenter, went well outside her areas of ...
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We shall measure stellar brightness logarithmically, and it will be called the "magnitude."
- Sir, will that logarithm be base 10, or based on Napier's constant?
Neither. It shall be of the base of the fifth root of one hundred.
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Dr Jess Wade is awarded the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture for her achievements in functional materials and her outstanding project which will support early career women scientists to pursue academic careers in materials sciences. #RSMedals
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The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded to Professor Hannah Fry for her prolific science communication activity as the foremost populariser of maths in the country who continues to inspire young people to pursue maths and physics in fun and exciting ways. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-…
Anyone that ascribes the sexagesimal system to the Greeks honestly has no business tutoring about the history of astronomy and time. Sorry. This thread is not accurate in more ways than one.
Anyone mind sharing A-level Physics OCR SoW? We’re switching from AQA and it would be helpful to see what other people are doing TY #iteachphysics #OCR #OCRphysics
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"Between 5 and 20 years from now there’s a probability of about a half that we'll have to confront the problem of [AI] trying to take over"
Regarded by many as the "godfather" of AI, Professor Geoffrey Hinton tells #Newsnight the technology presents an existential threat to humanity.
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Longer 4K video of the Solar Eclipse 2024 from space - filmed from our satellite. #Eclipse2024
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Happy 96th birthday to a crew-mate and friend, Jim Lovell. Here’s to another trip around the sun.
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The man who supposedly solved the longitude problem, clockmaker John Harrison, was born 24 March 1693 (os) #histsci #histtech
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ALT P.L. Tassaert’s half-tone print of Thomas King’s original 1767 portrait of John Harrison, located at the Science and Society Picture Library, London
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If you look very carefully, just to the right of the two side-by-side craters and above the deeper crater at center bottom, you can see Odysseus and its shadow, landed on the Moon.
Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team confirmed Odysseus completed its landing at 80.13°S and 1.44°E at a 2579 m elevation. After traveling more than 600,000 miles, Odysseus landed within 1.5 km of its intended Malapert A landing site, using a contingent laser range-finding system patched hours before landing. Image credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University. lroc.asu.edu/posts/1360 4/5 (26FEB2024 0745 CST)
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Please make this go viral. It’s never been articulated better than this.
2mins of Hashi Mohamed absolutely smashing the Conservatives Rwanda policy to bits.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
‘Our learned judges said the Home Office hadn’t even assessed that policy before adopting it
It’s unviable, it’s expensive & the only people it’s going to work for is the Rwandans’ #BBCQT