Tag Archive | "science"

Hope Beyond Hype – Ken MacLeod & Edward Ross’s stem cell comic

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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I’ve known for a while that one of my favourite science fiction writers, Ken MacLeod, was working alongside the excellent Edward Ross (who created the fascinating Filmish comics on film theory I reviewed previously) on a science education project using comics. Ken drops us a line to let us know that the fruits of their [...]

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The collected Keegan Jack

Friday, May 11, 2012

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Paul von Scott drops us a line to say that his and Leigh Shepherd’s Keegan Jack strip from the science fiction annual Omnivistascope (multiple time winner of SFX’s Fanzine of the Month) has been collected into a single 134 page edition, with every strip from the Omnivistascope run, plus a brand-new strip and plenty of [...]

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The Tricorder project

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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Now here is something to make your inner Star Trek and your inner gadget geek both smile – yes, it is a real Next Generation style Tricorder, which runs on open source design with Linux, various sensors, the ability to be modded as you want, to add more sensors and apps for different uses. Inventor [...]

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It’s all relative

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Okay this is science rather than science fiction, and it isn’t quite animation either, although it was produced by the famous Fleischer Studios (who brought us Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman in animated cartoon form), but it’s an interesting (and educational) little quirky piece of film-science history, a 1923 short explaining Einstein’s theory of relativity [...]

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In denail – the last chapter of Darryl’s Science Tales online

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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As is his now usual tradition, that very fine chap Darryl Cunningham has posted up the beta version of another of his chapters from a forthcoming book (as with his previous work comment and any require corrections are appreciated), his Science Tales which collects his excellent work in tackling some virulent misheld beliefs about scientific [...]

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Alan Moore – Cheltenham Science Festival interview…..

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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(Alan Moore at Cheltenham Science Festival – Photo by Andy Miah) The Big Issue Scotland are the latest to run an Alan Moore interview, and in common with many Alan Moore interview it’s half standard Moore stuff we’ve all probably heard before (Expelled for dealing LSD, work in the local tannery etc etc). But the [...]

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To boldly go…

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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It’s a sad day for many geeks as the final space shuttle mission returns to the Earthbound domain, never again to glide silently miles above our world, over poles and continents, clear skies and storms, never again to surge back into our atmosphere at many times the speed of sound, streaking across the sky, carrying [...]

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Doctor Who tube map

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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Okay, this labour of love outlining Doctor Who events by each Doctor’s incarnation in the  iconic style of the London Underground Map is just absolutely amazing! (link via Michael Moran) On a related topic, have a look through some more of Crispian Jago’s site (whence came the splendid Doctor Who tube map), as he has [...]

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Evolve or die

Thursday, May 26, 2011

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One of the blog’s consistent fave creators, Darryl Cunningham, gives us a peek at another of his pop science comics, which this time will be tackling the subject of evolution. I was going to say the ‘controversial’ subject of evolution, but then thought nope, it is only controversial if you deliberately decide to ignore decades [...]

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Yuri’s Day

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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This spring will mark the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most remarkable events not only of 20th century history but of all of human history. It’s April the 12th, 1961 and something is about to happen that has never happened in all the long ages of the world; a mere few decades after the [...]

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Cosmos and Cosmic, Kirby meets Sagan

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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(Cosmos and Sagan in Kirby style by and (c) Kyle Latino) As regular readers know, as well as being a comics and SF geek I’m also a lifelong space geek. And one of the formative influences on me as a kid was the fabulous science series Cosmos by the late and much missed Carl Sagan. [...]

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Movement from the still image

Friday, March 19, 2010

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We know that animation creates the illusion of movement through a rapid sequence of still images (as indeed does traditional celluloid film, including live action) and that comics creators have long used various devices and tricks to imply action and motion from a still frame to the reader’s eye. The excellent New Scientist has an [...]

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Of voyages, Beagles, Darwin and comics

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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You might remember earlier this year illustrator and comics creator Simon Gurr worked with Eugene Byrne on a comics biography of Charles Darwin which was given out to school children and others to encourage more reading of the natural sciences and to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin. Now on his blog [...]

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On this day…

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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On this day, forty years ago, human beings began the great odyssey to the Moon. The enormous engines on one of the largest craft ever built ignited and a huge Saturn V ascended into the skies on a blistering column of fire. Take a moment to just think about that. Its too easy now for [...]

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