Charles Darwin is the favourite scientist of Chris Smillie, a senior lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Management at Nottingham Trent University

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The numberphile guys, who also do the Sixty Symbols videos, take a look at the number 42. Douglas Adams would have turned 60 on March 11th, 2012.

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,168 views • 8:42

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From YT: A visit to the toilet is included in Professor Phil Moriarty's explanation of 3D glasses. How do 3D films give us that three dimensional effect?

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 11 months ago • 1,522 views • 10:26

The newest series from the guy who does the Sixty Symbols and related videos. From YT: Charles Messier's "anti-list' of objects in space has become iconic in the world of astronomy. We'll making videos... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 984 views • 7:26

FOR SCIENCE !

posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 3 years ago • 983 views • 7:08

Sixty Symbols is in Australia talking to one of the former Nottingham members and amateur astronomer Paul Haese about the Southern night skies.

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 1 month ago • 825 views • 5:21

From YT: We're in Dublin discussing Ireland's only science Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Walton, known as ETS to his colleagues. One of those colleagues, Iggy McGovern, penned a poem about Walton called... continue reading

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,481 views • 9:27

The Sixty Symbols team looks at some witches in space.

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 845 views • 5:09

Sixty Symbols looks at ghost particles.

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FOR SCIENCE

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FOR SCIENCE !

posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 741 views • 6:54

From YT: Studying supernovae and the accelerating universe - and a bet over a bottle of whisky. It's our take on the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, won by Saul Perlmutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam G Riess.

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,241 views • 8:15

Sixty Symbols looks into recent announcement that some scientist think they may have detected neutrinos going faster than the speed of light.

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,732 views • 9:38

From YT: A dramatic collision of two moons may explain why our Moon is very much two-sided. Professor Mike Merrifield briefly discusses a recent paper in Nature. Check it out at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal... continue reading

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,102 views • 4:24

Shaking grains and interesting physics.

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 961 views • 9:52

From YT: A lecture theatre at Trinity College, Dublin, is named in honour of Erwin Schrödinger. It was in Dublin that the physicist gave his famous lectures: "What is Life?"

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 4 months ago • 827 views • 9:04

From YT: Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield.

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,686 views • 7:57

Water on Mars and oxygen in the Orion Nebula - two recent news stories are discussed by Sixty Symbols astronomer Professor Mike Merrifield.

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posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 3 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 960 views • 9:17