Photo: Tomáš Moravec Because I’m travelling this week, I thought I’d just do a little Throwback Thursday to when artist Tomáš Moravec rode the rails in Bratislava with a basic shipping pallet and some basic wheels. […]
By the time I was old enough to watch Star Trek, it had already been consigned to — and then rescued from — the dustbin of television history. Fifteen years off the air, it had […]
Because of the impending religio-cultural holiday I’ll be participating in tomorrow and the surrounding social madness, this Thursday’s post is just a quick one. The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced that a six-month mystery has […]
As of yesterday, every scene in the Back to the Future trilogy officially took place in the past, because yesterday — October 21, 2015 — is the date they go forward in time to in the […]
In this #SkepticalTuesday #ThrowbackThursday crossover post, I write about the sad case of Wilhelm Reich, pseudoscientist. *** One of my favourite songs by Kate Bush is Cloudbusting, and my friends will tell you I’m a little obsessed with […]
For Throwback Thursday, I’m throwing it all the way back to when you had to pay someone just to sing “Happy Birthday to You” on tv, which is as far back as… *checks watch* …last week. Enjoy! *** […]
I was pretty much out of ideas for things to share with a historical but scientific theme this week, so here’s just a nice bit of pretty from a collection of papers of G. William […]
From the “I found it at work” and “the history of science is kind of funny” files. *** Athanasius Kircher was a Jesuit polymath from the seventeenth century, and, if we’re being honest, he thought […]