Now you can watch on YouTube the Colloquium held at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias on April 7:🧪 "The Reinvention of Science: from invoking invisible entities to the dinosaur extinction debate" 🧪⚛️🔭🦕☄️🌋 www.youtube.com/live/rmAUkZt...
My colleague Vicent Peris (@uv.es) and collaborators captured this image on April 5 of the Artemis II spacecraft about 300,000 km from Earth. Its trail appears near Antares and the globular cluster Messier 4. Taken from the AstroCamp Observatory (southern Spain). 🔭🧪⚛️ pixinsight.com/gallery/arte...
Today at the IAC: COLLOQUIUM
The Reinvention of Science: from invoking invisible entities to the dinosaur extinction debate
Vicent Martínez
See the live streaming of this talk today at 10:30 GMT+1 GMT+1). 🧪🔭⚛️🦕
iactalks.iac.es/talks/view/1923
One hundred years ago today, Robert Goddard launched the first modern fueled rocket beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight. Article in @theconversation.com by Michael Carrafiello theconversation.com/the-first-mo...
At 13:00 (UTC+1), the sunlight that passes through the center of the circle at the top of the totem marks a point on the slab that traces an elongated figure eight over the course of the year: the analemma. The zodiac constellations, days, and months have been marked. This is a solar calendar. 🧪⚛️🔭
Quan pensem en l’origen de la vida, hi ha un gran salt entre les primeres molècules i el famòs LUCA o primer ancestre universal. Però, què passa enmig de tot això i com ho unim?
✍️ @julipereto.bsky.social i @pablocarb.bsky.social (@i2sysbio.es @uv.es @csic.es)
“Belief vs. evidence” by Brian Alston. ‘Most individuals do not choose between belief and evidence. Instead, they continuously negotiate between them—integrating data, experience, intuition, values, and trust.’ open.substack.com/pub/briancal... 🧪🔭⚛️
Review on The Reinvention of Science by Kyle Cudworth, former director Yerkes Observatory. “One does not need to be a physicist to read and benefit from the book… readers should take time to enjoy the many stories of interesting characters and the fun historical tidbits”🧪⚛️🔭 doi.org/10.56315/PSC...
The Star of Bethlehem. In Giotto’s fresco The Adoration of the Magi, the painter represents the star as a comet. Giotto was able to observe Halley’s Comet in 1301. This comet, with a period of 76 years, was alo observed in the year 12 BCE; therefore, it could not have been the star of Bethlehem🧪⚛️🔭.
Happy solstice! 🌍❄️ Today (Dec 21) at 16:03 (CET or UTC+1) winter officially begins. Shortest day of the year, but your noon shadow will be the longest. From now on, days slowly start getting longer again. Animation by NAAP labs (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) 🧪⚛️🔭#astronomy
“A century of modern cosmology” by Wendy Freedman, “These measurements have given rise to the “Hubble tension,” a persistent and intriguing discrepancy in the current rate of cosmic expansion, which continues to challenge modern understanding of cosmology” 🧪🔭⚛️Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“Science has always been marketed, from 18th-century coffeehouse demos of Newton’s ideas to today’s TikTok explainers” by Beth DuFault 🧪⚛️🔭. See also “Bubbles and Influencers” (Chapter 3 of The Reinvention of Sicence) @theconversation.com theconversation.com/science-has-...
Lean a @aberron.bsky.social "Avi Loeb y los científicos que se pasan al ‘lado oscuro’: cuando el enemigo de la razón duerme en casa". Hablamos del papel de los 'influencers' en ciencia en "The Reinvention of Science. Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance"🧪⚛️🔭 www.eldiario.es/1_c3aebe?utm...
Great job!
It’s just fiction
Fascinated by the comet 3I/ATLAS and Prof Avi Loeb’s hypotheses? Watch the short film “Bow Shock” by Javier Díez. In the movie, astronomers spot an electromagnetic “bow wave”. A sudden deceleration of the wave suggests it is could be caused by an alien spacecraft. ⚛️🔭🧪 youtube.com/watch?v=fwZP...
Dinosaurs & Astrophysics: Rethinking Science: “…when an idea is accepted as dogma by the community, it is difficult to overthrow it, regardless of whether it is true or false.” From www.vu.lt/en/news-even... 🧪🔭⚛️
Compelling account of some of the most important questions in science, both historical and contemporary, showing how understanding develops, how wrong ideas can halt progress, and how the wrong people sometimes get the credit. Sample reads @ doi.org/10.1142/q0394 🧪🔭⚛️
Scientists Vicent J. Martínez and Bernard J. T. Jones discussing the research published in their book "The Reinvention of Science: Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance." Event chaired by Sonia Antoranz Contera, Professor of Biological Physics at Oxford Univesity. 🧪⚛️🔭
youtu.be/Ue0rz2hmcZ4?...
You can now see the conversation on the book: "The Reinvention of Science" held at the Instituto Cervantes (London). The same venue where the event with @irenevalmore.bsky.social about her wonderful book #Papyrus took place. See the quote from Richard Dawkins in our book.🧪⚛️🔭 youtu.be/Ue0rz2hmcZ4?...
OTD (November, the 11th), in 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in the constellation of Cassiopeia. In Valencia, shepherds and lime burners were surprised to see the celestial intruder. Page of the book "The Reinvention of Science. Slaying the Dragons of Dogma and Ignorance"🧪⚛️🔭
Rainbow over the Tower of London
The conversation about the book “The Reinvention of Science” that will take place on Tuesday the 28th (18:30 UK time) will be broadcasted. Get free tickets in go.uv.es/S9LaQ1j to receive the link for streaming. More about the book, including a booktrailer www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... 🧪🔭⚛️
On the Hubble tension and the dark energy. bigthink.com/starts-with-... by @startswithabang.bsky.social. Read also theconversation.com/dark-energy-... 🧪🔭⚛️
Next Tuesday October the 28th, at the Instituto Cervantes (London), we will have a conversation about the book: "The Reinvention of Science" with authors Bernard J. T. Jones and Vicent J. Martínez, chaired by Prof. Sonia Antoranz Contera. In person and online, free tickets at go.uv.es/S9LaQ1j
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Nos vemos este miércoles, 8 de octubre, en Córdoba. Hablaremos de "La Reinvención de la Ciencia. De la extinción de los dinosaurios a la materia oscura en el universo". A las 19:30h en el Rectorado de la Universidad de Córdoba 🧪🔭⚛️ @cordobaciencia.bsky.social @cienciasuco.bsky.social
Leaving Vilnius after a fruitful week of work at the Astronomical Observatory in Moletai and at the University's Physics Department where I gave a talk to a large and interested audience: "What killed the dinosaurs? and other science stories that you were wrongly told”. Many thanks to ACEBaltic🧪🔭⚛️
Next Thursday, September 25, 15:00h, at Vilnius University, Lithuania: “What killed the dinosaurs? And other science stories you were wrongly told”.🧪🔭⚛️🦕🌋☄️
Today, September 22nd, is the autumnal equinox. A good day to try this problem from the book "Fundamental Astronomy" by Karttunen et al. (Springer).
Are the sentences underlined in red and in blue correct? Hint: The sequence happens in Havana, let's say on September 22nd. Repost and try it!🧪⚛️🔭
