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Vi Hart Is Amazing

Posted on January 31, 2013, 10:33 am, by Kathryn Huxtable, under Philosophy, Science.

I’ve been following her YouTube channel for awhile now. She’s basically the modern Martin Gardner, but without the sour waspishness that he developed later in life. I first noticed her with one of her “Doodling in Math Class” videos (I think this one: Connecting Dots), but then, since I’ve been into Flexagons since my 7th […]

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Phil Plait says

Posted on December 14, 2010, 9:07 am, by Kathryn Huxtable, under Science.

The wind is no longer at Voyager’s back. It’s in the heliosheath. This means that in a few years Voyager will have left the solar system and be in the interstellar medium. Amazing. He adds: Imagine! It was launched before personal computers were everywhere, before cell phones, before the internet! But it was given a […]

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