by Richard Easther | Jul 15, 2015 | Featured, Science in Our Lives
Bikes, at the Aspen Center for Physics. Image: Richard Easther Last month, I visited the Aspen Centre for Physics, on the outskirts of Aspen, Colorado. It is a wonderful place: they give you a desk, a wifi connection, time to...
by Richard Easther | May 29, 2015 | Cosmology, Physics
In 1915, Berlin was at the centre of an empire locked into a global war. But at least one resident of that city had his mind elsewhere: Albert Einstein was working to reconcile gravity with the theory of relativity he had invented a decade...
by Richard Easther | May 26, 2015 | New Zealand
On March 14 this year, thinkScience made its public debut at the Auckland Arts Festival with a day-long series of events within the Festival programme. Or, as our supporter and friend, Nat Torkington put it, thinkScience shipped...
by Richard Easther | Apr 20, 2015 | Academia, Astronomy
The advent of the web and social media have led to a huge outpouring of enthusiasm for science but almost all sciences have skeletons in their closet, some real and some imaginary. Physicists gave us the bomb, chemists cook up the chemicals they...
by Richard Easther | Feb 14, 2015 | New Zealand, Science in Our Lives
I recently blogged on the physics behind modelling traffic flow. This is not just an academic question for me, as the billion dollar Waterview Connection is a couple of kilometres from my house. The project involves the biggest road...
