http://chrislintott.net The Universe as seen from the perspective of an astronomical researcher, presenter and writer. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:56:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm slowly bringing this blog back to life. Watch this space. In the meantime you have a twitter feed over there... Chris http://chrislintott.net/2009/12/08/a-new-look/ I want to learn how to fly (high) etc. The kids from fame may not be your ideal scientific role models, but I'm delighted to be able to blog about the rather wonderful FameLab competition run by NESTA in association with the Cheltenham Science Festival. I'd always been a bit scared ... http://chrislintott.net/2009/04/16/i-wanna-live-for-ever/ Today is, according to Suw at least, Ada Lovelace day. As I'm sure I don't need to tell you, Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron who is often acknowledged as the first to write down a computer program. I'm not sure why today is her day, but it's being ... http://chrislintott.net/2009/03/24/ada-lovelace-mary-somerville-and-agnes-clarke/ I had a very interesting evening last week chairing a discussion night at the Science Museum's Dana Centre. The topic - the Big Bang - was ably introduced by Kate Land and Andrew Jaffe, before philosopher Roman Frigg talked, rather too provocatively for my taste, about religion and the Big ... http://chrislintott.net/2009/03/24/in-the-beginning-there-was-ewans/ I've always secretly wanted one of two jobs; either to be Andrew Marr on Start the Week or Melvin Bragg on In our time. Beyond assassination or blackmail, I think either is a long way off but a flavour of both hangs around the first episode of the Inside Oxford ... http://chrislintott.net/2009/03/04/inside-oxford-science-podcast/ For those of you who don't live in the UK, there'll be a chance to watch six of the best Sky at Night episodes from the last few years on the BBC World News channel. The first - my interview with the last man to walk on the Moon, Eugene Cernan ... http://chrislintott.net/2009/02/26/sky-at-night-on-bbc-world/ Our recent Sky at Night programme about the Northern Lights seems to have attracted a lot of attention. To be honest, I don't think we can take too much of the credit for this as we could have just shown the Lights and people would still have watched open mouthed. ... http://chrislintott.net/2009/02/25/see-the-northern-lights-with-the-sky-at-night/ It's been 19 months since the launch of the original Galaxy Zoo. That week was ridiculous - my main memory is of incredulous laughter as the number of users and classifications climbed and climbed and I, and the rest of the team, realised what we had on our hands. Since then, ... http://chrislintott.net/2009/02/20/a-day-in-the-galaxy-zoo-2/ This week's Carnival of Space is now live, over at the Martian Chronicles blog. The Carnival is the best way to find new writers about everything astronomy and space online, so make sure you click through and find something. Personally, I enjoyed the update on the Chariot lunar rover - which ... http://chrislintott.net/2009/01/24/carnival-of-space-is-up/ It pains me to say this, but New Scientist has just handed the creationists an enormous gift, something we're going to be arguing over for years. It's one they're already making use of, as this report in the Dallas Morning News about recent Texas Board of Education meetings shows (Hat ... http://chrislintott.net/2009/01/23/new-scientist-is-wrong-but-is-this-news/