It's a movie I just watched about Alan Turing, WWII, Bletchley Park & Enigma, with some delving into Turing's time at secondary school and the love of his life, Christopher. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly among others. The actor playing the young Turing was amazing, too ( Read more... )

Nice little piece in Science Friday on the man who originally made photos of snowflakes. Starting in the late 19th Century:
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-man-who-froze-snowflakes-in-time/

NASA successfully pilots spacecraft between Saturn and its rings
Unmanned Cassini is back in radio contact after historic first dive of its kind, NASA says

This is the interview in which Neil DeGrasse Tyson answers the question from the interviewer of what the "most astounding fact" was that he could share him about the universe, w/music behind it. It's beautiful & I thought I had it elsewhere on here, but it's probably buried in years of entries. So here it is, on Vimeo ( Read more... )

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150701.html

I'm still trying to figure out where I should view the night sky. Considering everything about the new place, overall I'm happier being near other humans than being in a place with a good night sky.

Thanks to Phil Plait at Slate:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/05/27/time_lapse_trails_end_by_randy_halverson.html

Light is the fastest-moving stuff in the universe. It travels at an incredible 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second. That’s very fast. If you could travel at the speed of light, you would be able to circle the Earth’s equator about 7.5 times in just one second ( Read more... )

This is quite cool:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40523828@N07/sets/72157649692430461/?linkId=13726682#

1. The Bible, to learn that it’s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself
   
2. The System of the World by Isaac Newton, to learn that the universe is a knowable place
   
3. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, to learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth
   
4. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, to learn, ( Read more... )

NASA To Receive Significantly More Money Than It Asked For Next Year
December 15, 2014 | by Justine Alford