Tag: Science

Media from the Moon

Post author By admin
Post date March 31, 2026

Probably the single most well-known line in human history is that uttered by US astronaut Neil Armstrong as he stepped onto the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969: That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind Armstrong being in a position to say the line was […]

Tags Apollo, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Artemis, Artemis 2, Artemis II, Australian Space Agency, Blue Marble, NASA, Science, science communication, Space

Academia Pop Culture

What Matters? For the Love of Humanity (and Game of Thrones)

Post author By admin
Post date March 17, 2015

An essay formerly known as ‘How to say “sophomoric wankery” in High Valyrian.’ I once wrote a thinkpiece that clumsily linked an obscure theory of philosophy with the fantasy worlds created by George RR Martin and his contemporaries. Old Valyria (source) I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high readership of that piece, due in no […]

Tags game of thrones, humanities, Science