Is wine as sweet (or as dry, or as whatever) if the grapes are grown in Martian soil? The Martian Terroir project aims or claims to aim to find out. The organizers explain: Terroir could be defined as the biology of a place. It is a concept that brings the geology, climate, and the life […]
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Mars: Fun or No Fun?
Some people — some of whom are in the Mars Society — think it would be fun to go to Mars. Some people don’t. The singer Camille is (at least in this song) one of the latter:
Ig Nobel winner Pat Robertson makes another prediction
Pat Robertson, who shared the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in mathematics, has made a new prediction, this time about climate change. Robertson won his Ig Nobel for predicting the world would end in 1982, thus (eventually) teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations. His co-winners each made their own erroneous predictions […]
Heavens on and off the earth
Nicholas Heavens [pictured below] is a postdoc in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. Heavens has turned his wond’ring gaze to what happens on our own planet and to the goings-on elsewhere. You might enjoy reading his take on Martian dust distribution: Heavens, N.G., Richardson, M.I., Kleinbhöl, A., Kass, D.M., McCleese, […]