Spotlight[Science]: The Trenches of Discovery
- Friday, May 03 2013 @ 01:10 PM EDT
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Étienne-Jules Marey, Chronophotograph of a gull in flight, 1887
STORY: Planck rumours will soon become Planck results
The sky as seen by Planck in 2010. Only, they hadn't removed the foregrounds yet.
There's a whole Milky Way galaxy in the way. Why must they make us wait so long?
F.A.Q.
The Trenches of Discovery is a blog collectively authored by artists and scientists working actively in diverse fields of fundamental research: cosmology, biochemistry, aesthetics.
Our aim is to create a platform for this research to be shared and discussed: both between disciplines, and across them, to a wider community.
We hope this blog will spark an interest and a greater sense of involvement in what is often very specialized work. We want to create a mode of access to the truly astonishing discoveries occurring daily and in plain sight, yet strangely hidden, at universities, laboratories, museums, technical institutes, and so many other publicly-funded institutions of creativity and research.
Not least, we hope to broaden our own knowledge by conducting this discussion—across deep differences in specialization and training—online and in public. We're after the kinds of insights that can only be ignited by real, frictional collaboration: through conversation, disagreement, and an active sense of wonder.
Here is our post introducing the blog.
Our aim is to create a platform for this research to be shared and discussed: both between disciplines, and across them, to a wider community.
We hope this blog will spark an interest and a greater sense of involvement in what is often very specialized work. We want to create a mode of access to the truly astonishing discoveries occurring daily and in plain sight, yet strangely hidden, at universities, laboratories, museums, technical institutes, and so many other publicly-funded institutions of creativity and research.
Not least, we hope to broaden our own knowledge by conducting this discussion—across deep differences in specialization and training—online and in public. We're after the kinds of insights that can only be ignited by real, frictional collaboration: through conversation, disagreement, and an active sense of wonder.
Here is our post introducing the blog.
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The stories included here are all based on true events; however, similar to a typical movie script, a dispersal of fictitious incidents of adventure, drama and humor have been intermingled throughout for amusement. A statement of diversion that represents these writings is “All names have been changed to protect the guilty,” just opposite the lead in of the old Dragnet episodes. Moral standards of written expression are maintained throughout; there’s no foul language, nor detailed explicit sex. As an Afro-American raised in an eastern metropolitan urban enclave—Philadelphia—the social heritage from that environment is reflected throughout these writings.
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