physics
25Jul
Freeman Dyson: Let’s look for life in the outer solar system
posted by Steve Bowbrick
Why didn’t I think of this before? At TED.com they’ve got hours of really good ‘long-form’ telly—brainy people explaining their passions, mainly, but also some passionate people explaining their brains. Here’s a favourite: Freeman Dyson talking about the obligation on humans to look for life in the outer solar system. Freeman, you had me at [...]
18Apr
Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
posted by Steve Bowbrick
Here he is: Feynman. Sooner or later he was going to show up wasn’t he? Here’s a famous Horizon about the legendary physicist/communicator from 1981, the year I did my A-levels. Why didn’t anyone show me this video at school? Why did his name never even come up? Did I choose the wrong school? The [...]
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