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I recently added the feed from BCS to me feed reader and was just getting into his blog, when the news broke that the author Jeff Medkeff was seriously ill with cancer of the liver. He died on August 3rd 2008.

Here’s one of his best posts, read it and see what BCS was all about:

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I stumbled across this article from the Boston Globe about what it would mean if life was discovered on Mars. The author argues that because we have no objective evidence that there is other life in the Universe, that there is a Great Filter that prevents the rise of civilisations technologically advanced enough to colonise [...]

Today is Pi Day - a celebration of all things Ï€. It also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday.

To celebrate, here’s a few Pi facts:

Pi occurs in hundreds of equations in many sciences including those describing the DNA double helix, a rainbow, ripples spreading from where a raindrop fell into water, superstrings, general relativity, normal [...]

We’ve all heard about how carbon dioxide is causing climate change. The number of articles about reducing our “carbon footprint” or touting low carbon alternatives grows every day.

Why do all these articles talk about reducing carbon output? What about removing carbon dioxide?

If excess CO2 is such a problem, why aren’t we doing more to remove [...]

If you’ve ever heard of Kurt Vonnegut, you’ll probably have heard of Ice 9. Well here’s the real life, non-end-of-the-world version:

For those who want to know, it’s called Sodium Acetate, and it’s commonly found in hand warmers. More from Popular Science.