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Let's Explore! Hi! I'm Signore Galilei, and I write books, create educational videos online, and participated in the Inkhaven blogging residency. New to the blog? Start here! Latest videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU-UBwZe14rXd3ve4WHCIOjQ.
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The next total solar eclipse is 500 million miles away
This past week, there was a total solar eclipse, visible from a path stretching along far northern Russia, Greenland, Iceland, and Spain. Like many of this year's eclipse chasers, I was clouded out - though I did have a lovely couple minutes of darkness o
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"There Will Come Soft Rains": Bradbury's miniature apocalypse
Today is August 4th, 2026. Today is the original setting of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" from The Martian Chronicles.1 Bradbury himself once described this story as best representing the essence of his work,2 and I know of no st
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How to put 170 atoms in an atom
You might already know that atoms are mostly empty space. Physical size behaves a bit weirdly at the atomic scale, but essentially the radius of an atom's nucleus is tens of thousands of times smaller than the radius of an electron's orbital. That's the s
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The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon
We all learned in science class that water freezes at 0 C or 32 F at atmospheric pressure. But what water, exactly? Even after you distill out all the dissolved salts and minerals to get pure H2O, not all H2O is created equal - and for the most precise te
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8 billion protagonists
Let's consider a person you don't know. Maybe they live in the Republic of the Congo. Let's say they're near a city - not the country's biggest city, but maybe its 5th biggest city. I don't know that city's name, but I could probably look it up. And they'
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