Article#562 - Supersonic Eclipse Chase

When Astronomers Chased a Total Eclipse in a Concorde WRITTEN BY CHRIS HATHERILL March 9, 2016 // 09:00 AM EST On Wednesday, a solar eclipse gave people across a swath of Indonesia and the South Pacific the chance to see a generous 4 minutes and 9 seconds of totality: the awe-inspiring sight of the moon completely covering the sun, turning day into night and offering a rare glimpse of the corona, the gas swirling in the Sun’s outer atmosphere. But in 1973, a small group of astronomers from around the globe had a secret weapon for seeing a longer eclipse than ever...

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Article#561 - Reperkusi

Rangkaian detik demi detik kejadian di sore hari itu masih jelas terekam dalam memori. Detak jarum detik berdentam menyuarakan nyawanya ke seisi ruangan. Menghujam pelan pelan melalui telinga sosok yang terduduk kebingungan menghadapi sekian lembar kertas di hadapannya. Di kepalanya, sederetan rumus dan hitungan telah berjejer rapi untuk diejawantahkan menjadi baris demi baris persamaan di kertas. Tetapi dalam setiap dua detik ia memutuskan untuk mulai menuangkannya, ada satu detik di mana konsentrasinya buyar seketika. Terburai seperti serpih karet penghapus yang disisihkannya dari paras meja. Tetapi...

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Article#560 - Brexit

[latest update: 22nd September, 2016, 20:45 (UT+9)] A little glance on this blog every now and then will be more than enough to show that I am not really into macroeconomics and financial issues. Mainly because I lacked the adequate understanding on the topic, but that will only account for the lack of coverage on those topics only here in this blog. The fact that I rarely talk about this particular issue at all, is simply due to me being not familiar with the political turmoil that wreak havoc within the United Kingdom and European Union as a whole. Then–who would've thought about this–it drew...

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