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Film, Information, Science And Technology, All In A Single Vodcast
It’s a real pleasure to be able to present the 100th episode of FiST Chat. We went into production at the start of 2011 after Ben recognised that we had the technology capable of putting together a weekly episode even … Continue reading
One small step for curiosity, one giant leap for all humanity
Watching Curiosity touch down on Mars today almost 40 years after the Viking landers first visited Mars in the 1970s brought back a lot of happy memories for me. Too young to remember the Apollo moon missions, but just old … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Technology
Tagged exploring mars, mars, mars curiosity, mars curiosity landing, mars exploration, mars rover, mlc, nasa, science, space exploration, technology, total recall
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Brave New Olympics
Welcome sports fans to London 2012, officially the games of the 30th Olympiad and the last of the modern era. That’s right- the last of the modern era. Due to the explosion of digital technologies, the games of the last … Continue reading
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Tagged "london 2012", "london olympics", athlete, facebook, olympic games, olympics, science, social media, sport, swimming, technology, twitter
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A Battery Powered Carbon Tax
There seems to be little support for Australia’s recently introduced carbon tax. Hardly surprising really, has any tax ever been popular with the people? Yet this tax is seen by many as a vital stepping stone to transition Australia away … Continue reading
Why discovering the Boson means we should all give a Higgs
This week, I’ve already been asked a dozen times to explain the importance of the Higgs boson. Hardly surprising. This is a scientific discovery that has huge implications for humanity. It’s an achievement as remarkable as splitting the atom, going … Continue reading
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Tagged cern, discovery, god particle, higgs field, higgs-boson, large hadron collider, lhc, origins of the universe, science, scientific discovery, scientist, universe
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Hollywood Stories: Writers are the Lost Art
The Golden Age of Hollywood is often thought to be from the 1920s to the start of the 1970s. Big name studios, famous directors, actors and actresses were all a part of this amazing film making era that saw technologies … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, classic hollywood, demille, director, film, filmmaker, films, hitchcock, hollywood, movies, science, screenwriter, script, technology, writer
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Prehistoric Cinema
It’s hard to know what to make of claims that pre-historic artists were creating cave drawings of animals that when viewed by firelight turned into animated sequences. It just seems far-fetched to suggest they might have spent their evenings watching … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Science, Technology
Tagged ancestors, film, films, hollywood, human, human history, humans, movie, movies, prehistoric cinema, prehistoric movies, prehistory, science, stoneage, stoneage movies, technology
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A human put the Z in Antz
As the planets self proclaimed most intelligent species, it’s a little unsettling to find our society compared to that of the social insects like ants, bees and wasps. And although there is almost no similarity between our species on an … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged ant colony, ants, antz, colony, dreamworks, film, human population, human society, humans, science, society, technology
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A mathematica3 solutio1 to the proble4
A search of google reveals a list of math problems that remain unsolved today despite the best efforts of mathematicians around the world. On this list of prominent unsolved problems are gems such as the Goldbach conjecture, the twin prime … Continue reading
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Tagged film, language, mathematics, maths, science, simon pampena, technology, the world, universe
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The End Of The Space Race
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs to see the US government cutting around $300million from NASAs planetary science program. In 2010 President Obama, announced a vision for NASA that included a mission to Mars, but in light of these … Continue reading
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Tagged film, GFC, mission to mars, nasa, science, space exploration, space program, technology
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