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L is for Loch Ness
Loch Ness, in the middle of the Scottish Highlands, has more fresh water in it than all the lakes and rivers in England and Wales combined. It is neither the deepest lake in Britain…
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K is for Kepler
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. These words, written by Johannes Kepler in 1611, are profound. At the time, Galileo had just discovered the Galilean moons…
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J is for Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
If you look up in the night’s sky and point even a simple pair of binoculars at Jupiter, like Galileo did with a rudimentary telescope 405 years ago, you will see what he did:…
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I is for Island Evolution
Unbeknownst to the rest of us, a debate has been raging in the world of biogeography. The debate stems from a simple observation made by a young Canadian scientist in 1964: island animals are weird.…
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H is for Helium
Say goodbye to foil floating hearts on Valentines, shimmering floating shamrocks on St. Patty’s, and the prospect of tying thousands of balloons to your house and abducting a neighbourhood boy scout. The world’s Helium reserve is…
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The ABCs are being syndicated!
I’m proud and excited to announce a new partnership with a great science communication organization: The Rising Ape Collective. My ABCs series will be featured on their website under the Writes section and I’m…
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G is for Gravity Waves
Deep in Antarctica, right on top of the geographic south pole, there is a research station that peers back in time to the very beginning of our universe. Named the Amundsen-Scott Station, it is…
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F is for Faraday
The year is 1791. On a crisp autumn morning in south London, Margaret Hastwell, a blackmith’s apprentice, gives birth to her third son. With her husband, son, and daughter crowded around, she decides to…
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E is for Europa
Galileo Galilei is quite a famous astronomer but many of the discoveries he’s known for are just extensions of the work of others. For instance, he didn’t come up with the idea that the Sun…
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