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Trash Talk - Can we Sweep up Space Debris with Laser Brooms?

Last week, when I was floating around in space and watching chunks of the Apollo 11 spacecraft drift away below me, I wondered how much…

8 min readDec 5, 2017

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Trash Talk - Can we Sweep up Space Debris with Laser Brooms?

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Virtual Reality in Space, Part 1: Apollo 11 VR

Last week I shared a post about how we are all residents of a tiny, fragile, blue speck of dust, floating in the midst of endless, black…

12 min readNov 27, 2017

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Virtual Reality in Space, Part 1: Apollo 11 VR

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Spaceship Earth and The Overview Effect

The Overview Effect

11 min readNov 24, 2017

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Spaceship Earth and The Overview Effect

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The Ongoing Wow

Two Minds in One Brain — The Curious Case of Corpus Callosotomy

Did you know that it was possible for the two hemispheres of our brains to be independently conscious — and even to have differing…

6 min readNov 21, 2017

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Lessons on Living from those Facing Death

In February 2015, Oliver Sacks (pictured above) announced that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the liver, and had only months…

7 min readNov 20, 2017

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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome — Curiouser and Curiouser!

Have you ever been sleepy and trying to concentrate on something, perhaps reading a book in bed as you begin to drift off to sleep, when…

6 min readNov 14, 2017

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

We live in an age of big data, where scientists have collected such a vast amount of information that they simply don’t have the manpower…

6 min readNov 13, 2017

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Five Ways The Cosmos Fills Me With Awe

Pondering the cosmos never fails to make me feel minuscule and insignificant, but it still reliably overwhelms me with awe and wonder…

7 min readNov 11, 2017

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Five Ways The Cosmos Fills Me With Awe

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The Ongoing Wow

The Ongoing Wow

London-based writer, artist, cloud appreciator, tea drinker and cat servant. Writing about cosmology, virtual reality, consciousness and philosophy.

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