Like the rings of Saturn, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is one of the most famous sights in the solar system. How long the Spot has existed is unknown, but observations from as early as the 17th century indicate that it may be at least nearly 400 years old. But
Marc Grey In previous articles, we have covered nuclear reactor designs, accidents and the mechanics of nuclear reaction physics. However, the way the nuclear industry got started was in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, not to provide nuclear power! In this article, we look at how the first nuclear weapons
John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book “Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect”. The following are extracts are from pages 10-14, and page 15. The following was published on
Almost from the moment Neil Armstrong said, “That was one small step…”, people were asking, “So, when are we going to Mars?” Yet in the intervening half-century, we’ve gone more backwards from that goal than forwards. Sure, we’ve landed dozens of ever-more sophisticated robots and learned vastly more
The past is a great antidote to the panics of the present. Not just the fact that “the good old days” rarely were, but the lessons of a deeper time. Especially when it comes to the more lunatic pronouncements of the environmental lobby and climate alarmists. According to a completely
Information Satire Recently, I, your intrepid eye-witness, having inspected my fridge and larder, and ascertaining beyond all doubt that both resembled Mother Hubbard’s cupboard in every detail, ventured forth to my local Slashdown Supermarket with a view to rectifying this deplorable state of affairs. This was not accomplished as
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is the Content Manager and Brand Ambassador for the Foundation for Economic Education. In the US, it would be easy to believe the vast majority of people are in lockstep with the government’s pandemic policies. Networks are aflush with headlines claiming their polls
Dr Martin Lally Director, Capital Financial Consultants Ltd covidplanb.co.nz Professor Shaun Hendy is another prominent adviser to the New Zealand government on covid-19 issues. Like Professor Baker, he combines frequent commentary via popular media in support of lockdowns with papers written (with numerous co-authors) in the academic style.
covidplanb.co.nz We do not hold this type of modelling in high regard. First of all, it is myopically focused on reducing harm from Covid-19. It is hard to understand the utility of presenting such results without context. There is no mention that the average age of death of
covidplanb.co.nz There’s been some hysterical modellers claiming that even with high rates of Pfizer vaccination, there will still be a large number of deaths. Ironically, their models have opened the way in New Zealand to questioning the value of Covid vaccines. We don’t need notoriously unreliable
If we’re to believe the Greens and Te Paati Maori, the Maori were and are environmental saints, living in perfect harmony with their environment. It’s only since the wicked Pakeha showed up that all the environmental destruction and species extinction started. Which is even more ludicrous than fanciful
AJ Mitchell Australian National University Born and raised in Northern Ireland, AJ Mitchell attended Queen’s University Belfast as an undergraduate studying Mathematics and Physics. Following an internship at ETH Zurich, He decided to pursue a career in academic research. The Australian government has just declared an historic defence agreement
We’re all familiar with Laika the dog and Ham the chimp as pioneering animal astronauts, but how many of us have heard of the Moon Tortoises? In fact, two Russian tortoises, imaginatively named “22” and “37”, were the first Earth creatures to orbit the Moon, four months before Apollo
Osman Shabir University of Sheffield Osman Shabir studys neurovascular function in neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease/vascular dementia & cardiovascular disease (atherosclerosis). He uses preclinical models of human disease to study neurophysiology, neuropathology & neuroinflammation in these models to gain a better understanding of disease mechanisms
