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44 search results for "eclipse". Cocktail Party Physics Sic Transit Venus
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/search/?mssearch=eclipse
By Jennifer Ouellette
May 25th, 2012
One brisk wintry day in 1639, a young man named Jeremiah Horrocks -- barely 20 -- set up a telescope in his quarters near Preston, England and focused an indirect image of the sun onto a small card. Lack of finances had cut short his brief academic career at Cambridge,
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Cocktail Party Physics

The Science of Mysteries: Leave Us the Counterpoint

By Jennifer Ouellette
February 3rd, 2012
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Note: Last November, a Twitter exchange revealed that certain members of the small subset of science writers who were humanities majors (including your humble cocktail party blogger), also have a shared taste for classic murder mysteries. They thought they would co-post, on their respective blogs, various takes on the science of



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Cocktail Party Physics

The Science of Mysteries: For Whom the Bells Toll

By Jennifer Ouellette
December 21st, 2011
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A Twitter exchange recently revealed that certain members of the small subset of science writers who were humanities majors, also have a shared taste for classic mysteries. They thought they would co-post, on their respective blogs, some nice literary analyses ("the epistolary opening of Busman's Honeymoon ..."), but then realized



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Cocktail Party Physics

The Science of Mysteries: Of Granular Material and Singing Sands

By Jennifer Ouellette
November 17th, 2011
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A Twitter exchange recently revealed that certain members of the small subset of science writers who were humanities majors, also have a shared taste for classic mysteries. They thought they would co-post, on their respective blogs, some nice literary analyses ("the epistolary opening of Busman's Honeymoon ..."), but then realized



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On Naïveté Among Scientists Who Wish to Communicate

By Kevin Zelnio
October 4th, 2011
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My co-networker at Science Sushi, Christie Wilcox, wrote a heartfelt post about why she believes scientists need to jump away the lab bench and proclaim unto the world, SCIENCE! Naturally, I concur with her assessment, but her reply - that scientists must take to social media



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Life, Unbounded

The Solar Eclipse Coincidence

By Caleb A. Scharf
May 18th, 2012
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When the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon this Sunday, for many observers across much of the world it will be temporarily replaced by a beautiful ring of fire - a brilliant annulus of stellar plasma just peeking out around the dark lunar disk.



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Life, Unbounded

Solstice, Periapsis, and the Hades Orbit

By Caleb A. Scharf
December 21st, 2011


As our spinning globe of rock and metal tracks its steady path around the Sun, we find ourselves crossing once again through the winter solstice, the point at which Earth's northern pole is



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Smoke signals

By Caleb A. Scharf
July 16th, 2011
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Oh weather; a joy, a pain, the making of a beautiful day or a miserable evening. Our planetary environment is constantly shuffling through a deck of thermodynamic cards and local conditions reflect a small part of the resultant lofting, pouring, steaming, streaming and