In case you have have missed it, China is now part of the big boys’ club with regards to space exploration. It first moon rover, Jade Rabbit, has landed smoothly:
China’s moon rover makes tracks | Science | theguardian.com.
Are journals like Science, Nature and the like giving too much importance to themselves to the point of distorting the scientific process? A Nobel prize winner seems to think so (from The Guardian)
Grading of final exams in the coming weeks? A good read from University Affairs.
It is this time of the year when, as a student, you get into two contradicting phases: party and exam. Since you have a tendency to put everything on Facebook, especially a nice evening partying, please do find a better reason for not being present in class the next morning…
This is a very nice weekend project either for yourself or with kids! As a bonus, this will let you performed digital capture (photo 😉 ) of your observations at no extra cost (other than assuming you do have a smartphone with an integrated camera)
Instructions from PetaPixel (video) and Instructables (step by step).
Ruminating... 