Within the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) is this star - some forty times more massive than out sun - which is blowing that giant bubble of matter into space. It is so hot that material is very quickly cast out into space, forming this lumpy bubble, rippled by encounters with other gases of different density. [...]
Bollywood is name of the popular Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. Westeners often use it to refer to the whole of Indian cinema, not realising of course that Bollywood is just one part of the Indian film industry. There are others many others: Assamese cinema, of the state Assam; Bengali cinema which dates as [...]
A couple of months early for November the fifth, Ayrshire was gifted with an awesome display of pyrotechnics from a 10 year old and two fourteen year olds. Illustrated left, just plain old fireworks, but the explosion in Ayrshire was something else - flames surging 200 feet into the air, and they could be seen [...]
Pol. My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently!
Ham. Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Pol. By the mass and ‘tis, like a camel indeed.
Ham. Methinks it is like a weasel.
Pol. It is backed like a weasel.
Ham. Or like a whale.
Pol. Very like a whale.
– Shakespeare - Hamlet, [...]
Kuala Lumpur has some magnificent sunsets, the clouds just seem to soak up different shades of colour every time the sun dips down towards the horizon. I’ve seen everything from hellish oranges, to cotton candy pinks, vast clouds swept across the sky in great shapes prickling at our human sense of gestalten revealing to us [...]
Very intelligent you might say, very high concept it has been said. This book charts the waters ahead for humanity. It shows us just one possible path the stream of history may take. It teaches us, or rather drones on in the manner of an old school teacher who is due for retirement, just how [...]
NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows that the star Mira is leaving an enormous 13 light year long trail of material that will eventually end up part of new solar systems. The star is named Mira (my-rah) after the latin for “wonderful” and is moving at 291,000 miles per hour in relation to the other objects [...]
Reuters last night highlighted this bizarre piece of news from Russia, where police have arrested a 45 year old council worker who the police say committed “the bulkiest theft of the year”. It seems the man stole a 5 meter bridge which spanned a river in the Ryazan region, just east of Moscow. The man [...]
The Shade of the Soul, a story of our deepest fears; where noki glide through walls like wraiths and yet have claws that can slice like the sharpest of blades. Only jade is effective against them; jade posts keep them at bay and jade weapons can kill them - but at what price does safety [...]
Those crafty people over at google, have not only released a new version of google earth that does the same thing for space that google earth did for the earth - they have also built in a secret flight simulator. I just downloaded the new version and had a go at the flight sim. Loads [...]
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