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 themselves somehow. Uh, OK, here's one possibility-the moons, the dozens of moons that orbit Saturn are providing raw material for ...
The process should begin about 3 billion years from now and finish in an additional 4 billion years from then. Obviously, it's not something any of us will live to see. But regardless, scientists have already come up with a name for this future elliptical galaxy: They call it "Milkomeda...
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 ...
the theoretical set of these often referred to as a multiverse. If cosmologists ever become convinced that it is, indeed, likely other universes do exist, we should seek to determine, if possible, the overarching physical laws that each and every universe obeys, even if their ...
“It was strictly a symbolic event, to show that we could do it,” said Donald Campbell, now a professor emeritus of astronomy (A&S), who was a research associate at the observatory at the time. Campbell went on to become director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center...
3. If man wants to become an Antarctic driller/researcher, how should he best prepare? What’s the best route into the job? First off, graduate college with an engineering or science degree. If possible try and get a graduate degree. Almost all of the projects are related to fields such...
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...
(which should not matter because it is about to freeze anyway), its heart rate goes DOWN, not up. If the rat can escape, it will run away. If the rat is cornered and the threat is not ambiguous, it will fight. And not all of these behaviors require an amygdala. Freezing, fleeing,...
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