Doesn't time fly ! 🙂 Ten years have passed since I wrote my first post on my Explaining Science blog (originally called The Science Geek). I have decided to mark the occasion by reblogging my first ever post. Over the last ten years the question whether there are primitive life forms on Saturn’s icy moon… Continue reading Enceladus Could there be life 10 years on
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The Solstice – Lazy Scientific Journalism updated
Sometimes a video can convey a message better than a simple blog post and videos tend to reach a slightly different audience. I do get irritated by poor reporting of science topics in the mainstream media (maybe I am getting grumpy? 😊 ). So here’s a  video about the errors in the article about the… Continue reading The Solstice – Lazy Scientific Journalism updated
Easter March 31 2024
This year, for the majority of the world’s Christians, March 31 is Easter Sunday, one of the most important dates in the calendar. Although Easter is the festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, it is also widely marked by non-Christians in the UK, particularly as there are two very welcome public holidays on the preceding… Continue reading Easter March 31 2024
Seasonal Changes in an English Garden
This post is a departure from my usual topics of astronomy and more general science. In 2020, I took a series of photos of my back garden. This year was, for those of us in the UK - like many countries in the world, the year of the lockdowns due to the covid pandemic. A… Continue reading Seasonal Changes in an English Garden
Rising carbon dioxide levels
Like many of you, in December last year I followed with interest the news reports from COP28. As it concluded, there was much written in the media about whether the nations of the world would actually do what is needed to restrict the rise in average global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Now… Continue reading Rising carbon dioxide levels
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