Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
As regular readers of “Because It’s Friday” know, I often run maths articles in this slot because of our son, who has a Masters in Mathematics. When I saw this article, I knew I could not pass it up for today: Google Scholar has a ‘verified email’ for Sir Isaac …
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This week the “Because It’s Friday” bit is a time travel story from Randall Munroe that may take a moment or two to sink in. xkcd: Late Cenozoic The hover over comment is also excellent. Time to mess with future history. Dinosaurs featured in one of my earliest “Because It’s …
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Today’s “Because It’s Friday” is about a coincidence. This week I picked up a science fiction book from the ’70s this week, In Our Hands, the Stars by Harry Harrison. The very basic plot is that a scientist and the Danish government turn a submarine into a spacecraft. Sounds plausible! …
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Something quick this week’s for “Because It’s Friday”: xkcd: Slingshots You want a bit more? Here is a quick explanation of gravity assist from Mashable. For the record 1974 comes before 1977, so the Voyager missions were not the first spacecraft to use gravity assist for extended space exploration. (Watch …
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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 …
