Check out the Blood Moon this evening. Hopefully the clouds won't cover it.
Here is a clip from NASA
Watch in more detail here from NASA.
Stuff about Mathematics - this blog was set up for the Mathematicians at my school in Thailand. I migrated the contents when I left, so please excuse any images that didn't make the journey. They are bouncing around somewhere in the blogosphere. Image is from my travels in Argentina, 2013. The beautiful natural geometric patterns found in Humahuaca 2013
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Monday, 29 September 2014
Exciting Space News - Women of India (and some men)
Check out this article about "Nandini Harinath, 44, a physicist and a mother of two, was the deputy operations director of the Mars mission - in other words, she was the person "operating" the spacecraft between Earth and Mars."
Article Here
Image and text from the BBC
original link from Amy Poehler's Smart Girls on Facebook.
Article Here
Image and text from the BBC
original link from Amy Poehler's Smart Girls on Facebook.
Thursday, 14 August 2014
Perseids Meteor Shower Peak soon - pretty skies
12-13 - Perseids Meteor Shower Peak - These meteors are leftovers from Swift-Tuttle comet and are a favorite among many skywatchers.
We missed the big show but the Super Moon would have made it tricky to see anyway.
The shower can be visible from July 17th through August 24th, and will peak overnight on August 12th at 60 sightings per hour. Unfortunately, the light from the moon will wash out many of the meteors, though the brightest should still be visible.
You still have a chance to see this. Look up and enjoy.
You can also watch it online using slooh.com
Check out membership to control their satellites to look into the universe. Cool!
http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/special-highlight-the-perseids-sensation
Also NASA has recorded some of it (of course):
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/51306509
We missed the big show but the Super Moon would have made it tricky to see anyway.
The shower can be visible from July 17th through August 24th, and will peak overnight on August 12th at 60 sightings per hour. Unfortunately, the light from the moon will wash out many of the meteors, though the brightest should still be visible.
You still have a chance to see this. Look up and enjoy.
You can also watch it online using slooh.com
Check out membership to control their satellites to look into the universe. Cool!
http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/special-highlight-the-perseids-sensation
Also NASA has recorded some of it (of course):
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/51306509
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Welcome Back and BIG NEWS
The Fields Prize has been awarded to a woman for the first time.
"Iranian-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani on Wednesday became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics' equivalent to the Nobel Prize." Please read more in the CBC online here.
You can also read more in The Guardian - a nice interview piece and The Stanford University press release, where Maryam Mirzakhani is a Professor of Mathematics.
Thanks to Ajarn Lana for sharing this with the Mathematics department.
We are all working with Stanford University this year to develop our Mathematics and a growth mindset and you can puzzle over the famous puzzle that ignited her mathematical curiosity.
Add all of the numbers from 1 to 100 with a system that isn't 1+2+3+4 <-- there is a shortcut (:
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
This is HUGE!
Sorry about the lack of posts, I'm planning to make up for it.
And if you find something cool - a video or graphic or story that's mathematical, share it with me and I'll post it (referencing you of course).
It's about our universe, seconds after it began.
It's about theories and persistence
It's about patience and taking the time, a long time...
CHECK IT OUT HERE WOWOWOW
I love science and numbers
And if you find something cool - a video or graphic or story that's mathematical, share it with me and I'll post it (referencing you of course).
It's about our universe, seconds after it began.
It's about theories and persistence
It's about patience and taking the time, a long time...
CHECK IT OUT HERE WOWOWOW
I love science and numbers
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Pixels and the Scale of our Solar System
Check out this very cool If the Moon were the Size of a Pixel site, by Josh Worth.
It is very good at communicating the scale of the sun and the distance between planets.
It is very good at communicating the scale of the sun and the distance between planets.
CHECK IT OUT HERE
Monday, 6 January 2014
If you track the relative positions of Earth and Venus over an 8 year period, this is the resulting pattern. pic.twitter.com/oRbXDxVVIB
from the wonderful sharing world of Twitter
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