Happy Birthday, Stephen Hawking!
I just wanted to take a moment to wish Stephen Hawking, one of the people who inspired me to study physics and astronomy, a very happy birthday!
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Is Stephen Hawking a “Bad-Ass” of Science? NDGT Thinks so.
Professor Tyson weighs in with his opnion on the esteemed theorist and subject of the movie The Theory of Everything.
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Black Holes Still Exist; They’re Probably Just Different Than We Thought
Did Stephen Hawking really say black holes don’t exist? No, not as such. Read this for a better, iguana-filled explanation.
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Best Audio Books for Family Road Trips
Park the gadgets and keep the road trip bonding flowing with our extensive list of great audio books the whole family will love.
Continue ReadingHappy 70th Birthday, Stephen Hawking!
Today, the eminent physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking is 70 years old. Dr. Hawking has numerous scientific achievements, making him a household name and a modern icon of the term “genius.” From Dr. Hawking’s website: Stephen Hawking has worked on the …
Continue ReadingEntering This Contest Could Put Your Science Experiment in Space (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
If you’re a student between the ages of 14-18, you are eligible to enter a new contest announced this week, called Space Lab. The competition, sponsored by YouTube and Lenovo, gives students the opportunity to submit a science experiment that …
Continue ReadingEntering This Contest Could Put Your Science Experiment in Space
If you’re a student between the ages of 14-18, you are eligible to enter a new contest announced this week, called Space Lab. The competition, sponsored by YouTube and Lenovo, gives students the opportunity to submit a science experiment that …
Continue ReadingLaunch Into the Universe of Stephen Hawking’s Mind
Want to hear about wormholes and gas-giant-inhabiting aliens and time travel and that sort of mind-blowing thing from a true genius without doing a bunch of channel surfing? Problem solved: Discovery Channel’s long-awaited Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking launches …
Continue ReadingStephen Hawking To Take Us Into the Universe
I remember my dad telling me about watching Don Herbert on television back in the days of his original Watch Mr. Wizard. For me, growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, science on TV ranged from kid stuff like 3-2-1 …
Continue ReadingScience Legends Remixed Into Educational Music Video
We’ve come a long way since the early days of MTV. Designed to spread knowledge and philosophy, the Symphony of Science is a music video project paying tribute to the great minds of popular science. “We Are All Connected,” featuring …
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