I have two “Because It’s Friday” things for you today. The first is the continuing search for intelligent extra-terrestrial life: How gravitational waves could help detect Star Trek-style warp drive spaceships – The Conversation The second is from xkcd and is another maths joke. An occasional series I started because my son is …
Cloud Computing Cyber Security
Here is an excellent article from The Conversation, by Amro Al-Said Ahmad, looking at the vulnerabilities of cloud computing and infrastructure. How we’re using ‘chaos engineering’ to make cloud computing less vulnerable to cyber attacks (theconversation.com) Your Takeaway Many times, when I am involved with an IT and Cyber Security …
Because It’s Friday – and it is not funny!
I am about to go to Scotland on holiday and this showed up on The Conversation: In defence of midges (theconversation.com) I am not sure Diana, or our Scottish family and friends would get much comfort from this point of view. Now for something completely different… …we will continue our …
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Because It’s Friday – How big is the solar system?
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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Because It’s Friday – Tapputi-belat-ekalle
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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