Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
It s a while since we have had a space story on “Because It’s Friday” and this one also includes some maths to work out just how big is the Solar System? How astronomers work out the size of the Solar System – The Conversation NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is shown …
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I have a history of science lesson for today’s “Because It’s Friday”. Roberta Angioi – a Postdoctoral Researcher in Analytical Chemistry, Dublin City University – has an article on The Conversation discussing Tapputi-belat-ekalle, who was probably the worlds first documented chemist – she was formulating perfumes 3000 years ago, in …
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I had a number of candidates for today’s “Because It’s Friday”, looking for an attractive mate for a lonely plant, a funny story about dumb cyber criminals, another take on attraction by Randall Munroe. But there was one winner. I settled on a scientific study on how fire breathing would …
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Three Body Problem Having watched 3 Body Problem on Netflix, last weekend, I could not miss this article from The Conversation, by Tony Milligan from King’s College London, on Because It’s Friday. Tony has a great job title, Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Ethics, Cosmological Visionaries project! 3 Body …
The term “digital dark age” was popularised by Terry Kuny in 1997, to describe the digital phenomenon that electronic media and information is easily lost or destroyed. Books from centuries ago are still accessible – but could you read that 250MB Zipdisk today? We are living in a ‘digital dark …
