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Lego Could Make All The Difference

MR. Clark 18.12.15 Add Comment Edit

Ada Lovelace is an amazing historical figure, and not enough people A) know about her and 2) give her the credit she deserved. I highly ...

Theoretically It's All Relative, Generally Speaking

MR. Clark 1.12.15 Add Comment Edit

Remember a few years back, when there was that brief, fleeting possibility that neutrinos were travelling f aster than the speed of light...

How To Go To Space: A Thing Explainer Thing Explained

MR. Clark 12.11.15 Add Comment Edit

What is a Thing Explainer , you may ask? It's the brain child, like so many ideas, of Randall Munroe, person who made xkcd. The simpl...

[Review] - The Martian

MR. Clark 9.10.15 Add Comment Edit

Courtesy of 20th Century FOX The Martian was my favourite book of last year. I've said this so many times now, regular readers prob...

Makes You Believe We're Actually Going To Mars (We Aren't)

MR. Clark 1.9.15 Add Comment Edit

I liked me some Cosmos: A Space/Time Odyssey . And I'm looking forward to The Martian . And in a brilliant bit of sympathetic promoti...

Come To Mars, We'll Get Together, Have A Few Laughs...

MR. Clark 20.8.15 Add Comment Edit

We're a little more than a month away from the release of The Martian (less if you're going to TIFF, where it will have it's...

It's Far Beyond The Stars, It's Near Beyond The Moon

MR. Clark 28.7.15 Add Comment Edit

Humans don't do well with scale. We can't process it. It's a fault really, our brains simply haven't evolved the capacity...

Back In My Day, Pluto Was Never A Planet

MR. Clark 16.7.15 Add Comment Edit

Late night television is not a great place for innovation. The formula that the majority of the American TV late night shows work from is...

We Are Here, And So Is Everything Else

MR. Clark 7.7.15 Add Comment Edit

Courtesy of the ESA The Gaia satellite, operated by the European Space Agency, is a fascinating project. Equipped with a billion pixel c...

Gimme A Second...

MR. Clark 30.6.15 Add Comment Edit

As John Oliver explained this past Sunday, today is a Leap Second Day. Leap Seconds are things that most people have never heard of, and f...

People Are Interested In Dinosaurs This Week, For Some Reason

MR. Clark 16.6.15 Add Comment Edit

Which is a disturbing trend. People should be interested in dinosaurs all the time. They were awesome, and gigantic (some of them) and re...

Science The Shit Out It

MR. Clark 10.6.15 Add Comment Edit

I read a lot of books. A lot a lot of books. So, when I say that the best book I've read this year is Andy Weir's The Martian , ...

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