Lego Optics Lab: Worm Drive Pan/Tilt Mount

Lego Optics Lab: Worm Drive Pan/Tilt Mount

I’ll demonstrate how I built a worm drive pan/tilt mount out of Lego for your various Lego optics lab lens and filter holders. Some folks might find that the worm drive allows a bit more fine…
Stardust For Sale

Stardust For Sale

Meteorites - stones that fall on Earth from space - are quite rare, but not so much as to make their possession impossible. In fact I know a few collectors of these strange bits of matter; and I find…
Vladimir Putin Thinks The World Of Sepp Blatter

Vladimir Putin Thinks The World Of Sepp Blatter

In what can really only be described as a conference for people nobody likes, Sepp Blatter and Vladimir Putin hung out recently to discuss slave labor (probably), embezzlement (definitely) and the…
Brain, Rhythm, and Music

Brain, Rhythm, and Music

My attention was recently drawn to a link to the Science Codex, which begins: It don’t mean a thing if the brain ain’t got that swing Like Duke Ellington’s 1931 jazz standard, the human brain…
Pluto, Stígandr, Omoo?

Pluto, Stígandr, Omoo?

What do you say to Pluto’s demotion to “dwarf planet” status?  I did not approve of the demotion, but a few days ago our BBC Sky at Night team did give a reasonable reason why it does require a…
Lego Optics Lab: Worm Drive Panoramic Mount

Lego Optics Lab: Worm Drive Panoramic Mount

I’ll demonstrate how I built a worm drive panoramic mount out of Lego for your various Lego optics lab lens and filter holders. Some folks might find that the worm drive allows a bit more fine…
Interna

Interna

I apologize for my lack of posting in the past few days. I will resume it very soon... So as a means of apology I thought I would explain what I have been up to this week.- I have been fully absorbed…
Are All Weight Loss Doctors Quacks?

Are All Weight Loss Doctors Quacks?

Ben Goldacre, whom I hold in high esteem, has repeatedly contended that anyone espousing diet philosophies to others is practicing quackery. Eating does not require scientific scrutiny, nor does it…
Lego Optics Lab: Pan/Tilt Mount

Lego Optics Lab: Pan/Tilt Mount

I’ll demonstrate how I built upon my Lego simple panoramic mount to create a simple pan/tilt mount for your various Lego optics lab lenses and filter holders. Follow me on Twitter: @…
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence Gets His Hagiography

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence Gets His Hagiography

When we think of science today, we think of Big Science, like the Large Hadron Collider and the Human Genome Project. That makes sense, Americans like big and bold, but that was not always the case.…
Thoughts from Pluto?

Thoughts from Pluto?

Pluto really does seem to have captured people’s imagination.  With the announcement that the (dwarf) planet is larger than we thought, a neighbour was asking me how one measured its size. This…
Wacko Conspiracy Sites: The Intercept

Wacko Conspiracy Sites: The Intercept

They don't directly talk about us, they talk about a guy at a think tank who used to be a staffer for the Council a decade ago, which would be a logical fallacy but I don't want to use big words and…
Lego Optics Lab: Panoramic Mount

Lego Optics Lab: Panoramic Mount

I’ll demonstrate how I built a very simple panoramic mount out of Lego for your various Lego optics lab lens and filter holders. Follow me on Twitter: @SteveSchuler20. Parts needed 1 Lego…
Lego Optics Lab: Mirror/Filter Holder

Lego Optics Lab: Mirror/Filter Holder

I’ll demonstrate how I built a simple mirror or filter mount out of Lego. This mount can then be attached to a pan and/or tilt mechanism. Follow me on Twitter: @SteveSchuler20. Also see my…