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There’s a lot of science out there. I’m Joe, let me be your guide to the creative side of discovery, big science news, wondrous science visuals, analysis-izations and all the otherwise cool science-y things out there, with all the woo and BS filtered out.“Everyone’s favorite Feynman of the Tumblr era” - Maria Popova
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HA! So, today’s my last day working in my lab, today’s Dilbert is amazingly appropriate, eh? :)
On to bigger and better things! I’ll be working the science beat at Wired Magazine in San Francisco this summer, and my PBS YouTube show continues on and on.
Thanks, everyone. In a way, I feel like we did this together. Let’s see what else we can learn! (Or at least pretend to learn)
-Dr. Joe
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My last day in lab. Goodbye, lab bench! I’m leaving good vibes for your next resident. The tools of a biologist are humble, and rather liquidy, when viewed all together.
(Just kidding! It’s all water, the secret’s out!!)
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Sound in Space - The B-Sides - Voyager 1, The Symphony
It’s time for another Episode Extra! (which is where you special blog readers get to check out really cool stuff to go along with my YouTube videos, like special features on a DVD, only way more special-er)
In this latest episode of It’s Okay To Be Smart, we got to explore some musical and sonic art projects that were not only inspired by space, but created from space.
Voyager 1, the most distant manmade object ever created, a
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I would read that magazine.
But yeah, they are most definitely a thing. I’ve covered them here before.
When solar systems are forming, and young planets condense out of gases and debris, their orbits are not always stable. Either because of collisions (like the one that created our moon) or extreme elliptical orbits at the distant edges of their star system, they can be catapulted out of regular orbits and sentenced to a life among the
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infinity-imagined:
Exoplanets orbiting stars near the Sun.
Hopefully no one takes this to mean that other stars, and their attendant planets, revolve around us, right? I mean, we’re cool, but we’re not THAT cool.Although the number of confirmed exoplanets is only in the hundreds, the number of estimated exoplanets could be as high as 100 billion (or more?), or one for every star in the Milky Way.And that doesn’t count the cold, presumably dead, rogue planets wandering interstellar
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