JUICE is going to be fruitful
If you’ve read something about subsurface oceans in our solar system, the chances are you’ve already heard about the upcoming JUICE mission by ESA, ...
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News from Academia Film Olomouc & more
Well, AFO turned out great despite some small organizational problems. The films and talks were all interesting. I liked Pohyby (Movements) and Kmeny: Hackeři (...
Academia Film Olomouc
Just a quick reminder: Olomouc hosts AFO (Academia Film Olomouc) festival next week (April 14 – 19). I’ll be there having a talk about subsurface oc...
Source of Earth’s water: A little idea about D/H ratios
You couldn’t have missed the headlines: Due to Rosetta’s measurements of the ratio of hydrogen and deuterium in 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s wa...
Book launch at Fenixcon
My newest novel, “Bez naděje”, is having a book launch ceremony at Fenixcon this Saturday afternoon. More info and a snippet from the novel (in Czec...
Science-fictional & real science
If we have seen further, it’s largely by standing on layers of previous errors. I had a lecture last week about cognitive biases, their possible adaptiven...
A new article: Realms of Dark, Deep and Cold
These places never see sunlight, are buried deep under thick ice crusts and warmed mostly by radioactive decay and tidal forces: subsurface oceans of celestial ...
On the awesomeness of 2012 VP113
Earlier today, NASA announced the discovery of a probable new dwarf planet 2012 VP113. Its perihelion is even futher than Sedna’s, at around 80 AU. Though...
