Astronomy
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8 Comets, 2500 Nebulae: Caroline Herschel’s Century of Astronomy
In 2092, if there are still humans on our planet to look and to see, a comet will appear in…
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Western Science’s Last Breath Before Dying: Hypatia Of Alexandria (Women in Science 49)
By 400 CE, Alexandria was a nervous husk dancing the edge of zealous self-annihilation. For centuries the intellectual capital of…
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Hydrogen Rules the Universe: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Composition of Stars (Women in Science 48)
“You are young, and wrong. You must retract.” When fresh-faced zeal confronts experience, it usually loses. Scientists who think they’ve…
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Mad Art Cast: The beauty of science and art, plus Dr. Nicole Gugliucci
This week’s Mad Art Cast features the crew discussing an article in Forbes about the beauty in art and the…
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Mad Art Cast — Pamela Gay Interview!
This week, we talked with rockstar astronomer and the silkiest voice in science podcasting, Dr. Pamela Gay! Some links: If…
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Art Inquisition: A Cure For What Ails You?
I’ve been sick this weekend and more than a little brain-fuzzy, but I still wanted to do A Thing. An…
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Just a Few Days Away From #NewHorizons Pluto Flyby!
This is an exciting time for space travel because for the first time in history a spacecraft will have traveled…
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Computing Venus: The Astronomy of Maria Mitchell (Women in Science 38)
In the early nineteenth century nothing about the island of Nantucket made sense. It was simultaneously a hotbed of Quakerism…
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