Holiday Gifts to Enjoy

A new year will soon be upon us, as will some fascinating new programs for you to enjoy. I just finished prepping Tom Murphy’s presentation “Einstein, The Moon, and the Long-Lost Soviet Reflector,” about his on-going and ever-improving test of general relativity, which will start airing on January 26. If you’ve ever stumbled getting a grasp […]

A new year will soon be upon us, as will some fascinating new programs for you to enjoy. I just finished prepping Tom Murphy’s presentation “Einstein, The Moon, and the Long-Lost Soviet Reflector,” about his on-going and ever-improving test of general relativity, which will start airing on January 26. If you’ve ever stumbled getting a grasp of the prime tenets of Einsteinian – or the gravity of general relativity – Tom clears it all up and gives a captivating account of a truly remarkable project. I don’t want to give it all away, you’ll have to watch it.

And, of course, don’t miss the singular Ira Flatow as he explains why I like science so much — because, as he shows in his acceptance address for the Nierenberg Award, “Science is Sexy” (debuts January 12).

In the meantime, here are a few things I’ve run across that you might enjoy exploring– a few holiday gifts, if you will.

I recently came across an artist from UCSD who takes an interesting, evocative and different perspective of the seismic test capacities at UCSD. See her videos, recorded at UCSD’s SRMD test facility, at her website here – and don’t overlook her other fine work.

This is just a fun little app to play with, which actually is quite captivating and revealing. Go here.

And finally, on a more reflective note, the videos at Symphony of Science are inventive, sometimes goofy, but do resonate in a certain way.

Enjoy, and best wishes for your holidays.