There are some things you just don’t think about until they’re shown to you. Most people don’t think twice about why the same side of the moon always faces us,…
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David Klemke
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All life as we know it has one basic need: water. The amount of water required to sustain life is a highly variable thing, from creatures that live out their…
David Klemke
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For much of my childhood people told me I was smart. Things that frustrated other kids, like maths, seemed to come easy to me and this led to many people…
David Klemke
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Time is a strange beast. As far as we know it always appears to go forward although strange things start to occur in the presence of gravity. Indeed if you synchronized two…
David Klemke
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There’s little question in my mind that the future of energy production on earth lies within fusion. There’s simply no other kind of energy source that can produce energy on…
David Klemke
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The spiral shape of a galaxy is an image that would be familiar to many of us but the story behind that shape is much less understood. We all know…
David Klemke
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The war against bullshit is asymmetrical. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve had someone stumble across my blog post and rattle off a paragraph or two which then…
David Klemke
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There’s a saying that goes “The speed of light is greater than the speed of sound, which is why some people appear bright before they open their mouths”. Whilst I’m…
David Klemke
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How much do you know about where we are in the universe? I’d hazard a guess that nearly everyone can say that we’re the 3rd planet from our sun and…
David Klemke
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The sun is an amazing celestial object. Even though it looks about the same size as our moon when viewed from Earth’s surface it’s almost 400 times further away which…