News from Academia Film Olomouc & more
Well, AFO turned out great despite some small organizational problems. The films and talks were all interesting. I liked Pohyby (Movements) and Kmeny: Hackeři (...
Tag: science
Academia Film Olomouc
Just a quick reminder: Olomouc hosts AFO (Academia Film Olomouc) festival next week (April 14 – 19). I’ll be there having a talk about subsurface oc...
Source of Earth’s water: A little idea about D/H ratios
You couldn’t have missed the headlines: Due to Rosetta’s measurements of the ratio of hydrogen and deuterium in 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s wa...
Book launch at Fenixcon
My newest novel, “Bez naděje”, is having a book launch ceremony at Fenixcon this Saturday afternoon. More info and a snippet from the novel (in Czec...
Science-fictional & real science
If we have seen further, it’s largely by standing on layers of previous errors. I had a lecture last week about cognitive biases, their possible adaptiven...
A new article: Realms of Dark, Deep and Cold
These places never see sunlight, are buried deep under thick ice crusts and warmed mostly by radioactive decay and tidal forces: subsurface oceans of celestial ...
On the awesomeness of 2012 VP113
Earlier today, NASA announced the discovery of a probable new dwarf planet 2012 VP113. Its perihelion is even futher than Sedna’s, at around 80 AU. Though...
