This morning, the moon, Jupiter and Venus lay close together in the east. This photo was taken with a compact camera from Llano de La Venta viewpoint, one of the astronomical viewpoints on La Palma.
My story, “The Appliance of Science” is up at The Dunesteef audio fiction magazine. I originally wrote this story to cheer up a friend who was going through a rough patch.
The Tazacote martytrs have an unusual memorial – 18m underwater at Malpique, the site where they drowned. There are 40 crosses, one for each of the victims. The memorial was created in 2000, and I’m told that it’s easy to visit even for novice divers. The photo was taken by Christian Carlos Tdo. Rguez who is a local diving instructor and ecologist. He has a blog in Spanish (with excellent photos)…
The Tazacote martytrs have an unusual memorial – 18m underwater at Malpique, the site where they drowned. There are 40 crosses, one for each of the victims. The memorial was created in 2000, and I’m told that it’s easy to visit even for novice divers. The photo was taken by Christian Carlos Tdo. Rguez who is a local diving instructor and ecologist. He has a blog in Spanish (with excellent photos)…
You must have noticed that the physicists have been jumping up and down lately, because the Large Hadron Collider has discovered the Higgs boson, nicknamed the God particle. I’m not a particle physicist. I’m not at all clear about how the Higgs boson creates the Higgs field and gives everything mass. Here’s the bit I’m clear about. The human brain evolved to hunt antelopes on the Serrengeti. Quantum physics is…
Professor Brian Cox gives his opinion in this short video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18736011