Handy guide, get yourselves ready…

#clocksgoback

Just finished a lucid & illuminating book by Prof Jim Al-Khalili on all the major discoveries/theories/preoccupations in physics & the the discipline’s future. For non specialists like me who find the discipline intimidating but the physical world fascinating it is brilliant

Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies is available on BBC iPlayer again with Jim Al-Khalili
Part 1: Going Small
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

L'assenza degli scienziati dal Parlamento e il ruolo della cultura scientifica per il benessere delle società illibraio.it/news/saggistic…

Resignation statements, abbreviated.
Cameron: Oops.
May: I'm sorry.
Johnson: You bastards.
Truss: I was right.

Protons are stretchier than expected. Their constituent quarks are pulled apart by an electric field more easily than the Standard Model predicts, reports James Riordon for Science News.
sciencenews.org/article/proton…

Johnjoe McFadden Jim Al-Khalili OpenMind You both made valid and complementary observations. I'd characterize it as Occam's Razor meets Occam's Whetstone.
I like that OpenMind is shared openly under a Creative Commons license. OpenMind

Is Occam's razor, as my friend and colleague
Jim Al-Khalili insists, 'deeply misleading' openmindmag.org/articles/the-d… or, as I claim (openmindmag.org/articles/the-s…), is it the foundation of modern science? Read both OpenMind essays and tell us what do you think?

Jim Al-Khalili dr sapphire Caroline S-T The BIG questions include...

💬 Could quantum mechanics potentially explain why DNA mutates?
💬 How does time travel?
💬 What problems might quantum mechanics help explain or solve in the future?

Listen on Apple Podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can…

#SurreySpeaks

Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE Jim Al-Khalili and Dr Sapphire Lally dr sapphire were asked some BIG questions in this week's #SurreySpeaks podcast.

Listen below for a fascinating discussion with our host Dr Caroline Shenton-Taylor Caroline S-T 🎧
open.spotify.com/episode/6W8Pys…

James Lovelock, a remarkable scientist, by ⁦Roger Highfield⁩ ⁦Aeon+Psyche⁩ aeon.co/essays/james-l…

In this essay, academic, author, and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili breaks down why many explanations that scientists call “simple”—such as the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun—really aren’t simple at all. openmindmag.org/articles/the-d…

Is Occam's razor 'deeply misleading' or the foundation of modern science? Read opposing opinions in OpenMind essays by my friend, colleague and co-director of Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Surrey Jim Al-Khalili openmindmag.org/articles/the-d… and me openmindmag.org/articles/the-s…. What do you think?

Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at NASA Ghoul-dard 👻 Space Flight Center present you a seamless zoom from the ground to space

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'Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous and proud men to live at ease, to bag and barn up the treasures of the earth from others, that these may beg and starve in a fruitful land?'

Gerrard Winstanley, a political and religious reformer, was born on this day in 1609.