Hi! I write about #science for Smithsonian, Discover, Quanta, Nautilus, Undark, National Geographic, CBC Radio, & many other outlets. Books include The Science of Shakespeare and In Search of Time. Co-host of BookLab podcast. 🔭🪐⭐️⚛️
Dan Falk
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I miss Sunday newspaper travel sections.
DSLR pix to come; meanwhile: planets by smartphone! The bright one is Venus; below it is Jupiter; and — the tough one! — if you zoom in you can see Mercury above the second light standard. (The bright “stars” close to the horizon are planes.) The stars Pollux and Castor are to the right of Venus. ✨
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“Thirty years ago, nanotech was about to change everything. Let’s not get tricked again by Silicon Valley’s magical thinking,” writes @philipcball.bsky.social: aeon.co/essays/no-su...
The next total solar #eclipse is two months from today, visible from Iceland and from Spain! ICYMI, here's a video that I made, to help you plan for it (and also for the next one, in 2027): youtu.be/99qmRY55iFE?...
I'm on CBC's Quirks & Quarks today, talking about what comes next for particle #physics, after the Large Hadron Collider. In Canada, tune in at about 12:41 p.m. local time. 🕰📻 Of course, folks can catch it anytime, online: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... (scroll down toward the bottom) #science
Venus and Jupiter are at their closest to one another tonight and tomorrow night, sitting less than 2 degrees apart! (1.8 degrees today; about 1.7 degrees tomorrow.) (Diagram from @skyandtelescope.bsky.social.) And yes, Mercury is there too, although more challenging to see. Happy planet-gazing! :)
J'ai récemment écrit un article sur les neutrinos pour le magazine Knowable; il semblerait qu'il ait été traduit en français: atlantico.fr/article/decr...
"'Why do we do astrophysics?' Hogg offered an answer. It wasn’t to solve the cosmos but to grapple with it: a journey, not a destination."
THIS, from @joshuasokol.bsky.social, gets at the heart of why I despise genAI: it assumes that writing is a product rather than an experience
#Venus and #Jupiter, last night, as seen from Toronto. (iPhone for the wider view; DSLR with 300mm lens for the close-up view. :) ) #planets #planetaryconjunction #planetgazing #toronto #lookup #VenusandJupiter
Researchers see enormous power in new tools—but also the potential end of astrophysics as a human endeavor
