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Dyson Sphere discovered??

The Internet has been abuzz with the recent ‘discovery’ of a possibly artificial mega-structure surrounding KIC 8462852, a star situated 1,500 light years from Earth.1 By studying the intensity of the incoming light, scientists at NASA have determined that something…

New Contributor to this website

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I would like to welcome Oliver Frost, a new contributor of articles to this website. Oliver will be contributing articles as and when he has time to write them. The range of topics he writes on will be quite broad.…

Nat Geo Wild Malaysia

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I am an avid watcher of documentary productions by the National Geographic Society. In Sydney, documentaries by the National Geographic Society are usually about the reproduction cycle of plants or animals, about travel, about marine ecosystems, etc etc. You know,…

NASA – Major Mars announcement

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The scientific community is agog with anticipation waiting for NASA’s announcement of a major discovery at 11.30 a.m EDT Monday Sept. 28, 2015 (11.30 p.m. KL Monday / 1.30 a.m Sydney Tuesday). Some people are guessing that NASA will announce…

Stack Overflow – does it compute?

Stack Overflow is a cool site. There is always something weird on it which relates to computing or science or mathematics or something totally different again. But Stack Overflow is not just an eclectic Q & A site for bored…

OECD report on computers in schools

There I was just doing some light reading and I stumbled across a press release by the OECD saying that computers in schools do not translate to smarter school kids. Don’t believe me? Here, read it yourself from the OECD…