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Kottke has set up a way to watch the Apollo 11 landing on TV as it aired 40 years ago
For a more authentic feel,
This is just like real TV…if you miss the appointed time, there’s no rewind or anything…the video is playing “live”. I have not done extensive browser testing so it may not [...]
Cosmic Variance has a post linking to Why is Science Important (to which I linked back in February)
It’s worth revisiting, if for no other reason than to give this great quote from the video
“You’ve just seen me walk across red hot coals, at a temperature of over five hundred degrees Celsius. I could tell [...]
Dot Physics: Basics: Centripetal Acceleration
Cocktail Party Physics: NEW VOICES: georgie boy
Dr. Cheadle has never heard of vitamins. Their discovery is decades in the future. But he understands that diet is the issue here, although many colleagues disagree. Dr. Cheadle argues in his 1878 paper against the various other theories about scurvy, including that it is caused by humid [...]
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