by Heather Hastie | Mar 5, 2016 | Science & Nature
One of the YouTube sites I subscribe to is that of the European Southern Observatory, which I first found out about via reader Amy Carparelli. Their ESOcasts, as they call their channel, are full of fascinating information and beautiful images. The latest one, about...
by Heather Hastie | Jan 10, 2016 | Science & Nature
It wasn’t this week, it was last year – 20 December 2015 – but I only found out about it yesterday and it’s so cute that I decided to make an exception. 🙂 Monterey Bay Aquarium in California is an institution dedicated to conservation of the...
by Heather Hastie | Dec 1, 2015 | Science & Nature, USA
As regular readers will know, I enjoy Fox News’s The Five, which is a US show in which five co-hosts (four conservative and one liberal) discuss current events. Because of the political leanings of most of the co-hosts, I rarely agree with them, but I enjoy the...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 22, 2015 | Auē a Tau Kē, Science & Nature
On 14 December, a new application period for those who want to be NASA astronauts opens. I’d love to be an astronaut, but fail at a couple of hurdles even to apply. I’m not a US citizen, a history degree is not a qualification they’re looking for,...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 21, 2015 | New Zealand, Science & Nature
I’m subscribed to a number of YouTube sites, and BBC Earth is one of them, but as usual Amy Carparelli was quicker off the mark than me and brought this one to my attention before I got around to checking my subscriptions. This one describes the amazing vision...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 19, 2015 | Science & Nature
We have another great video via Amy Carparelli (@AmyAmylou1993) about the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission. It explains three of the things we’ve learnt from the mission so far, and three questions that have arisen from what has been learnt....
