But, instead of asking, "How did the rings form?" We should be asking…uh, anyone? Beth? Female student: How do the rings form? Male professor: How do the rings form! Because they're apparently replenishing the
NARRATOR: Listen to part of a lecture in an astronomy class. MALE PROFESSOR: Saturn's rings have always baffled astronomers.Until about 30 years ago, we thought the rings were composed of particles of ice and rock that were left over from Saturn's formation—extra material that never managed...
“Dialectical superiority” is a cue that Alvin Goldman, a philosopher at Rutgers University, suggested using in a 2001 paper titled “Experts: Which ones should you trust?” He wrote that in a debate between two experts, the one who displays “comparative quickness and smoothness,” and has ...
Martha Haynes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy (A&S), first used Arecibo in 1973, when she was a summer research intern. She used Arecibo constantly. “Surveys of atomic hydrogen using Arecibo,” she said, “has been the cornerstone of my research career.” Haynes’ Are...
SpaceX — was how bright their satellites are," Patrick Seitzer, an astronomy professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, said Wednesday (Jan. 8) during a special news conference at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) called "Astronomy Confronts Satellite ...
NARRATOR: Listen to part of a lecture in an astronomy class. MALE PROFESSOR: Saturn's rings have always baffled astronomers. Until about 30 years ago, we thought the rings were composed of particles of ice and rock that were left over from Saturn's formation—extra material that never manage...
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." Robert Hunter Wade, professor of political economy at the London School of Economics (UK) and author of "Governing the Market" (Princeton University Press): ...
So, if you’re thinking of music, that’s number turned into sound, and astronomy is number as it goes through time and space. And arithmetic is number just studied for itself. And geometry is number as it relates to space. So you’ve got all of these different understandings of number...
The Adam's apple: it's neither an apple nor is it possessed exclusively by people named Adam. We'll talk about why that is, plus another linguistic conundrum: how did 'physician' become a word for 'doctor' while 'physicist' stayed in the realm of matter
The BGRR’s stack is not a monument to a cause we have ceased to honour, but its removal makes me ponder what science historians should keep. The BGRR’s stack is not a monument to a cause we have ceased to honour, except perhaps to those who regard reactors as objectionable. But it...