Sunday, August 14, 2016

Dark Voice of the Night: Week in Science courtesy of Our ABC

 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."
~ Matthew 7:7  (Ask, Seek, Knock )

Have we detected an alien megastructure in space? Keep an open mind The Guardian  

One of the most compelling sounds for the human ear is the sound of another human voice. The thoughtful and bouncy voice of Dom (home in Slavic) Knight who has a birth link to Charter77  rocks. The older he gets, the cheekier he becomes. Dom's must be the most common sence and mischievous voice on the air on the ABC these days. Since ancient bohemian Greece, the voice has represented participatory democracy, and today we still argue about whose voices to include in our national conversations ...
Divia and Dom with their families  in India circa 2015

Dive into the world of particle physics with astrophysicist, science communicator and media personality Dr Alan Duffy. Dr Duffy will talk about the world’s greatest science experiment – CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Find out about the 27-km collider buried deep under the border between Switzerland and France and its cathedral-sized detector caverns. Learn about the Higgs boson and discover how studying the subatomic world can point the way to a fuller understanding of our universe  The worlds greatest experiment


A science writer says that even people who aren't scientists should have seen the trouble behind the claims of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the now-disgraced Theranos medical company. The clues are here

Dr Lisa Harvey-Smith is an astrophysicist, educator and speaker. She has worked at world-class astronomical observatories in the U.K., Germany, The Netherlands and Australia. Lisa was a member of the team that delivered Australia’s successful bid to host the world’s largest radio telescope - the Square Kilometre Array. Her role as a researcher and project scientist for an $188m SKA precursor telescope places her at the cutting-edge of technology development for radio astronomy  Science Week



 

Sydney Science 2016

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