These two videos are making their way around the intertubes today, but they’re too good not to share. They’re from the Deep Impact spacecraft (now renamed EPOXI), and show something rather magical:
Visit the Bad Astronomy Blog for a much better write-up than I could ever do.
This one takes a personal twist, as a couple of weeks ago I was stricken with a case of campylobacteriosis, caused by Campylobacter jejuni. This video explains what the bacteria is, what it does (oh god it makes you sick) and how to avoid getting it into your system:
I don’t think I’ve got Guillain-Barré Syndrome yet…
This week’s Weekly Science Video comes courtesy NASA. This is the second in a series produced to educate people about GLAST, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, which is due to launch on June 5.
This video discusses gamma-rays, which I’ve discussed before in the gamma-ray burst context.
This video was brought to my attention by Phil Plait, who’s the first talking head in the video.
One from the National Center for Science Education this week, explaining how the amazingly complex human eye evolved.
Brian Cox is known as a “rock star physicist”. Given he was in two bands, Dare and D:Ream, and is now a particle physicist, the moniker fits. These days he’s works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN, where they’re planning on smacking protons together at incredibly high velocities to see what comes out. Particle physicists are hoping what comes out is the Higgs boson, which is one of the particles predicted by the Standard Model but has never been seen.
In this talk, Dr. Cox explains all this in eloquent fashion. He was invited to give this presentation at the 2008 TED Conference.
