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nemfrog · 8 months

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"Astronomical photography." Knowledge. May 1906.

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#astronomy #sciene photography #moon #phases #grid #nemfrog #popular science #1906 #early 1900s #1k

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dduane · 5 months

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That's a shame.

#Popular Science

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lindahall · 2 months

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Camille Flammarion – Scientist of the Day

Camille Flammarion, a French astronomer and popular science writer, was born Feb. 26, 1842.

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married-to-a-redhead · 5 months

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I just read that Popular Science magazine has been shut down after 151 years of publication. Every Christmas until I was 18, my uncle gave me a subscription to Popular Science and I read it every month. I basically grew up with Popular Science. The world has changed, and I understand there is little room for a magazine like this anymore. Nevertheless, I will miss it.

#popular science #personal

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benmillerfanblog · 10 days

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'It's Not Rocket Science' by Ben Miller is back :)

#'It's Not Rocket Science'#ben miller #books #popular science

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clove-pinks · 1 year

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Dissolving views were a popular form of entertainment by the 1840s, using a type of slide projector to show a transition from one scene to another.

An illustration by Archibald Henning of a popular science presentation using a magic lantern projector for The Natural History of the Idler Upon Town by Albert Smith, 1848.

The popular* mid-19th century writer, promoter, and entertainer Albert Smith also produced shows with dissolving views and moving panoramas, drawing on his experiences for the fictional Clumpley Literary and Scientific Institution in his 1844 novel The Adventures of Mr. Ledbury and His Friend Jack Johnson, which featured "experiments with the gases, and chemical transformations; tricks with the air-pump, and dissolving views; electro-type, and galvanic batteries—in fact, all sorts of entertaining sights."

*on this blog

Google Books has an 1848 novel called Dissolving Views, tentatively attributed to one Anne Gauntlett. It has some delightfully 1840s illustrations of the characters, who have names like "Professor Fingerfact" and "Mr. Delightingood."

#Eighteen-Forties Friday #1840s #victorian #popular science #entertainment #albert smith #dissolving views #early victorian era #technology #archibald henning #1848 #illustrations #1844

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bethanythebogwitch · 5 months

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There should be a law that says if a headline ever says that "a new discovery has completely changed everything we know about some scientific field" that it hasn't actually.

Turns out "new discovery expands our knowledge of this field but does not fundamentally change our understanding of it" isn't as catchy a headline

#science #science communication #science journalism #popular science

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earthchivist · 2 months

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Hello everyone! / Bonjour a toutes et à tous !

This blog is dedicated to the sharing of all of what the olds stones and bones have to tell us. It'll be in the form of little stories or archives notes covering sciences news, fields findings or collections curiosities /

Ce blog est dédié au partage de tout ce que les vieilles roches et vieux os ont a nous dire. Cela prendra la forme de petite histoires ou de notes d'archives parlant d'actualités scientifiques, de découvertes sur le terrain, ou de curiosités provenant de collections

As a french native and Internet English speaker, all of my post will be both in French and English in the following format : a succession of paragraph in both languages with a "/" to separe them and English in bold (because I'm too lazy to make two different post and maybe that way you can maybe try to learn something else) /

En tant que francophone natif et anglophone d'internet,tout mes post seront à la fois en anglais et en français selon le format suivant : une succession de paragraphes dans les deux langues avec un "/" au milieu pour les séparer, et l'anglais en gras (parce que je suis trop fainéant pour faire deux post différents et peut être que comme ça vous apprendrez quelque chose d'autre)

#Earth science #paleontology #Geology #English #French #Français #Vulgarisation #Musée #Museum #popular science #nature #Learning

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the-yearning-astronaut · 4 months

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I just learned that Carl Sagan suffered from chronic pain his entire adult life, starting in college. He had achalasia.

How did I not know this? I'm gonna cry.

As someone who developed chronic pain while in college, who wants to be a science communicator but regularly doubts their ability to do so.... This is such a validating thing for me to learn. Maybe I can do this despite my pain and disabilities. Maybe I'm not foolhardy for pursuing an advanced degree so that I can interpret science for the public. I have no desire to be the public face of Planetary Science the way he was but... Maybe I can be someone.

#science communication #carl sagan #interpretation #science interpretation #informal education #popular science #planetary science #achalasia #chronic pain #brb gonna go cry #and send my hopes out to the universe #i just want to go to grad school and move forward with my life #let me do this thing PLS #☉#astronomy

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misforgotten2 · 4 months

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