Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
For rather a long time, since 1880 to be precise, accurate monthly temperature records have been kept. 2016 saw record breaking months, but that was an El Niño year. Since that has now passed everything now returns back to normal .. right? So how has 2017 been doing? To answer that we can turn to ClimateCentral. … Read more
The ice in Greenland is melting and that spells out trouble for humans. This is because there is enough ice in Greenland alone to raise sea level by roughly six meters. So how much is melting? If you surf on over to NOAA then you find that they clearly spell out how the melting trend is … Read more
Google Home is a voice activated internet connected speaker. The idea is that you can ask questions and also get it to do things such as turn lights on and off (assuming you have them configured them to be part of the IOT). Hey, sounds neat. Ah but wait, what happens when advertisers twig to the observation that … Read more
Before we dive into the list, let’s start with a quick bit of Software Easter Egg history. Who was the first and why was that specific term used? The Birth of the very first Software Easter Egg Back in 1979, Warren Robinett, the developer of the Atari 2600‘s Adventure, was rather frustrated by the fact that designers like … Read more
There has been a bit of media flutter about the NASA Press Release entitled …. “NASA to Reveal New Discoveries in News Conference on Oceans Beyond Earth“. Yes the grammar of that press release title sucks, and so no, that NASA News Conference will not be taking place on an alien ocean. I must confess I am … Read more
The word Metadata is a term that is often guaranteed to cause eyes too glaze over in under five minutes, and yet it is a word that describes something that is both simple and yet deeply disruptive and transformative. The world as we now know it wold be radically different and a lot worse off … Read more