Something of a busman’s holiday, this. But I think this might be my favourite astronomy pic ever.
Entries Tagged as ‘the wonders of science’
June 18, 2009
Where you fall to if you’re not tied down
Imagine someone pays for you to go to the Antarctic and make a documentary. Dramatic, beautiful vistas, as pure as the mathematics of air flow and crystallization, which your viewers won’t have seen for themselves. Extraordinary cold. Cliffs of ice. Danger. Explorers enduring unimaginable hardship in the name of science. Penguins. What a nightmare. Where [...]
January 19, 2009
Atmospherics
On Friday, when Channel 4 News was over and there was nothing else to watch before we went to bed, as usual, early and sober, L decided to burn some incense, something she does more for entertainment than for smell or ambience. First she lit a disc of charcoal from the all-faith religious supplies shop [...]
