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Deus Dominus Machina
By Thomas Let’s do something totally unproductive today: Let`s play god. Well, it`s going to be “playing god” if you go with the saying “Evolution is god’s way of issuing upgrades”. For everyone else...
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The Moon’s New Clothes Mantle
By Thomas The 12 people who walked on the Moon are the only humans who ever set foot on another world1. Though this world is on average more than 380.000 km away from ours, the rocks brought back by...
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“Climate change can be explained using simple water cycle models that combine...
By Thomas Confused by the headline of this post? Don’t be! Just read on, it will become clear in a second. About a month ago, I took over the administration of this blog from Claire, who did an...
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Money for Nothing
By Thomas The recently released budget plans of the Australian government have been heavily debated over the last few weeks. I will not bother you with my (general) opinion about the budget (or the...
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Vikings vs Dinosaurs
By Thomas As many, I was fascinated with dinosaurs as a kid. My childhood memory is filled with pictures of (featherless!) monsters as in Figure 1. For quite a while I wanted to become a...
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The Teeny-Tiny Trace of a Giant Impact
By Thomas The Moon formed in a Giant Impact of a planet called Theia with Earth (Figure 1). You can find a nice simulation of this event at the end of this post or watch the orginal here. In a post a...
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A Brief History of the Moon
By Thomas Most of my posts here on the blog are related to the Moon, which stems from the fact that my PhD project is on lunar samples. I therefore could devote a big deal of my time in the last two...
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ArtUp your Science
By Thomas A few weeks back I wrote about the “epicness” and literary quality that is hidden behind the technical terms in which scientific ideas (i.e. hypotheses or theories) are presented. “A picture...
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Changing the Pace
By Thomas I don`t know why exactly – maybe it is for no reason at all, maybe because it is “winter” here in Australia, or maybe because I came across the video below a few weeks back – but these days I...
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Good News are Good News
By Thomas We all know the saying “Bad News are Good News”, usually used by/for the media, referring to the phenomenon that “Bad News” normally get much more attention than “Good News”. Over the course...
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Paranoid
By Thomas In science, a big part of your daily work is to critically assess other peoples and – more importantly – your own work. This can sometimes lead you into states of mind, which let you...
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Communication Breakdown
By Thomas Over the last week space science got a lot of publicity thanks to Rosetta and its sidekick Philae. ESAs successful attempt to land a spacecraft on a comet was all over the news. Apart from...
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The Tunguska Enigma
By Thomas It was an early June morning in 1908, somewhere in Siberia, as without a warning “the sky split in two and fire appeared high and wide over the forest”. That is at least how eyewitness S....
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The next big leap
By Thomas I´m sure most of you have already seen this movie in the last few weeks, but as we have Christmas, I thought I refer to it for those of you who haven´t seen it yet1: Why do I think this is a...
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First Words
By Thomas Six times the Apollo missions landed on the Moon (Yes, they did!). Six times “first words” were spoken on the lunar surface. Most of them are not well known though. What were they and how do...
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Writing for the Reader
By Thomas This is going to be a short blog post, because I actually want you to read a rather long article*. But I think every minute spend on reading it will be worthwhile your time. That is, if you...
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Stupid hoodies
By Thomas Sometimes you come across things that leave you speechless for a moment. Then you consider short whether it is worth the trouble to get upset about it. You shake your head and walk off. But...
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Auf Wiedersehen
By Thomas This post is likely going to be my last one in a while. The reason for this is, that I’m now venturing in the final stage of my PhD and I have to focus on writing my thesis. Normally it takes...
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