What is science? * Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia * Understanding science: A great site Lucy found that kinda explains it all (University of California, Berkeley) * Tyler Durden (Wikipedia) * What is science? (University of California, Berkeley) * What is the scientific method? (University of California, Berkeley) * Some opinions on what is theoretical vs practical science (The Straight Dope) * What is pure mathematics? (Wikipedia) * What is applied mathematics? (Wikipedia) * Game of Thrones (Wikipedia) * Science is focussed on the natural vs supernatural world - the 'natural' world means anything in the universe, including anything that humans make (University of California, Berkeley) * ESP: What can science say? (University of California, Berkeley) * UriGeller.com * What is reproducibility? A key principle of the scientific method (Wikipedia) * The role of replication in science (University of California, Berkeley) * Dutch agency launches first grants programme dedicated to replication (Nature) * Lithium, sodium & potassium react with water (YouTube) * Magnesium ribbon burns bright white (YouTube) * Newton's three laws of motion (NASA) * Kepler's three laws for the motion of planets (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) * Newton's laws are amazing but don't work at very small scales, very high speeds or very strong gravitational fields (Wikipedia) * How did NASA conclude that the general theory of relativity was not needed for Earth-moon flight path computation? (Stack Exchange, Space Exploration) * What is general relativity? (Wikipedia) * What is special relativity? (Wikipedia) * Relativity has everyday applications, like GPS (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University) * The Martian (Wikipedia) * The discovery of genetics from Mendel to the human genome project is an example of a long-term group effort in science (CogWeb, UCLA) * Gregor Mendel & the principles of inheritance (Nature) * Interactive timeline on the history of genetics from Darwin to the 21st century (Wellcome Library) * Aristotle & ancient Greek genetic theory (About Education) * Gregor Mendel died in 1884 & his work wasn't taken seriously until after his death (Wikipedia) * Charles Darwin saw an important platypus in Wallerawang, NSW, near where Lucy grew up (Lithgow.com) * Einstein used to be a patent clerk in Switzerland (Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property) * Fermat's Last Theorem: "The first successful proof was released in 1994 by Andrew Wiles, & formally published in 1995, after 358 years of effort by mathematicians" (Wikipedia) * The Higgs boson discovery in the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) * Australia's CSIRO coated many of the ultra-high-performance mirrors used in the LIGO to detect the first gravitational waves (CSIRO) * The polar bear natural gas ad...sooo cosy (YouTube) * Scientists are more creative than you might imagine (The Atlantic) * Infographic: What is the cosmic microwave background? (Space.com) * Stanley Kubrick (bio.) * Crick, Watson, Wilkins, Franklin & DNA (Chemical Heritage Foundation) * Sexism in science: Did Watson & Crick really steal Rosalind Franklin’s data? (The Guardian) * Mendeleev apparently dreamt the periodic table! (Wikipedia) * A decade of deep thinking: Princeton Center for Theoretical Science celebrates 10 years (Princeton) * Australia's CSIRO overcame the problem of 'reverberation' to invent WiFi (CSIRO) * Alas the patent for WiFi has now expired, but not before earning the CSIRO millions of dollars, which was reinvested into more sciencey stuff (The Australian Business Review) * Fact or fiction?: NASA spent millions to develop a pen that would write in space, whereas the Soviet cosmonauts used a pencil (Scientific American) * Science relies on evidence (University of California, Berkeley) * The dark side of Linus Pauling's legacy: Debating the benefits of vitamin C (Quackwatch) * DNA was discovered in 1869 & its structure presented in 1953 (History) * James Watson is still alive (Wikipedia) * Francis Crick died in 2004 (Wikipedia) * Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough (YouTube) * Why Einstein was wrong about being wrong (Phys.org)

Corrections * Lucy meant Apollo 13 not Apollo 11 when talking about movies where stuff went wrong in space (Wikipedia) * Gregor Mendel published his main pea results in the 1860s, not 1870s (Wikipedia) * Charles Darwin's Beagle voyage lasted 5 years, not 8 (Wikipedia) * Sir Isaac Newton said the quote about "standing on the shoulders of giants", not Galileo (BBC) * Peter Higgs thought up the boson concept after a failed camping trip in the 1960s, not 1950s (Wikipedia) * Sorry Lucy, NASA didn't invent Velcro, some Swiss guy did in the 1940s...in fairness, Lucy heard this from a real astronaut - who wouldn't believe an astronaut? (NASA) * "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is attributed to Carl Sagan, not Richard Feynman (Rational Wiki)

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