Category Archives: Science

The Last Man on the Moon

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Rati Mehrotra

Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing The Last Man on the Moon directed by Mark Craig, a documentary about Eugene Cernan,  Commander of Apollo 17, the final lunar landing. The best part? A Q&A with Capt. Eugene Cernan himself, … Continue reading →

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Four Faces of an Alien God

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Rati Mehrotra

Isn’t that a really cool title? It’s the name I gave to my most experimental piece of flash fiction, which is now published by LampLight, a quarterly magazine of literary dark fiction. The issue is available for USD 2.99 in a variety … Continue reading →

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Reality as a Mathematical Construct – really??

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Rati Mehrotra

I’m reading cosmologist Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. I’m a sucker for popular science books on maths and physics, especially when they’re as well-written as this one. Max Tegmark argues that not … Continue reading →

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Starry and stormy nights at CAO

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Rati Mehrotra

Just spent a fantastic weekend at CAO, the Carr Astronomical Observatory two hours north of Toronto, near Thornbury, Ontario. Any RASC member can avail of the wonderful dark sky facilities at CAO, but every July CAO holds its annual Star-B-Q, … Continue reading →

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Particle Fever

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Rati Mehrotra

If you haven’t seen Particle Fever, I highly recommend it. It’s a 99 minute documentary on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and the physicists behind the search for the elusive ‘God Particle’ – the Higgs Boson. And no, the documentary is not just … Continue reading →

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Go NASA Go!

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Rati Mehrotra

What’s the best thing about going to Orlando, Florida? (Apart from the fact that its actually warm and sunny, not a ridiculous -25 C in mid-March). That would be the Kennedy Space Center. This is the closest a mere mortal can … Continue reading →

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Emails from the future, Part 1

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Rati Mehrotra

I get a lot of spam emails. I delete literally hundreds of them every day. A boring and thankless task until I decided to have some fun with them. What will spam in the future look like? Very similar to … Continue reading →

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Letting the geek out at SFContario

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Rati Mehrotra

I just spent a fantastic weekend at Toronto’s annual Science Fiction Convention, SFContario. The panels ranged from the technical (climate change, anyone?) to the delightfully absurd (Huggy snakes, anyone?). I’ve listed some highlights below of a few of the panels … Continue reading →

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Off to the Red Planet

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Rati Mehrotra

Today India launched its first rocket to Mars. The Mars Orbiter Mission, also known as Mangalyaan, aims to reach Mars orbit by September 2014. I know, I know, still a long way to go before sending a manned mission and … Continue reading →

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Virtual Dreams: science or science fiction?

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Rati Mehrotra

Nuit Blanche – Toronto’s annual sunset-to-sunrise art festival, gets crazier every year. I love it. This time, I allowed myself to be blindfolded by the Darkists, cycled on the Human Sweat Generator, pulled the legs of a giant spider balloon, … Continue reading →

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