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Science communication is important in today's technologically advanced society. A good part of the adult community is not science savvy and lacks the background to make sense of rapidly changing technology. My blog attempts to help by publishing articles of general interest in an easy to read and understand format without using mathematics. You can contact me at ektalks@yahoo.co.uk

Friday, 14 June 2019

Index of Blogs (2018-2019) and Courses


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6 January 2021  Colours in the Environment: PART 1: Sky, Clouds, Sunsets, Twilights, NLCs; Some Fascinating 
                                Physics in Play; Interaction of Light with Matter
27 November 2020   Artificial Light at Night is a Rapidly Growing Problem with Serious Health 
                                & Ecological Implications; Solutions are Relatively Simple: 
                                A Public Information Feature
24 October 2020    Colour of Objects: Visible Light Spectrum; Primary Colours; 
                                Optical Illusions; How Do Colours Work?
13 October 2020    Net-Zero by 2050 - How does One Eliminate Emissions from 
                                Agriculture, Heavy Transport & Industry? 
                                _A Community Education Feature
31 August 2020    Climate Change - Present Status & Future Prospects: 
                                Talk at WES (Scotland)
17 August 2020   Biodiversity Loss in the Anthropocene; Impact on Human Welfare
4 August 2020  What is Light? All You Need to Know - A Community Education Feature
16 July 2020    Climate Change - Awaz Radio, Glasgow 15th July 2020
27 May 2020  IMO 1988 Problem 6: General Term Using School-Level Maths
10 February 2020   Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Freedom - 
                                       Cyber Dystopia and Beyond
24 January 2020   7.75 Billion and 415 ppm; 4C Warmer World is Really Bad News
18 December 2019   Climate Change; Indecision at COP25 in Madrid; 
                                    Fiddling as the Planet Burns
18 December 2019  Making Sense of our Climate Change: 
                                    6. Carbon Isotope Studies Prove That Human are 
                                    Responsible for Global Warming
14 December 2019   Making Sense of our Climate Change:
                                     5. Carbon Cycle and the Keeling Curve
10 December 2019   Making Sense of our Climate Change: 4. Global Warming Indicators
2 December 2019     Isaac Newton_Troubled Genius: 1. Family Tree; Early Years
1 December 2019  Making Sense of our Climate Change: 3. The Science of Global Warming
19 November 2019   Making Sense of Our Changing Climate: 2. Weather and Climate
17 November 2019      Making Sense of Our Changing Climate: 1. Introduction
1 November 2019   Outdoor Air Pollution in Delhi - an Update
3 October 2019    Common Sense and Superstitions - Personal, Cultural, 
                                Spiritual and Scientific Dimensions
11 September 2019       Limits to Sustainable Human Energy Production 
13 July 2019  Pillars and Sinks of Healthy Ageing

26 June 2019 Longevity and Quality of Life - Lifestyle and Chronic Diseases - 
                                It is Time to Reflect on How We Live
5 May 2019  SLEEP (Part 2): Why Do We Need to Sleep? 
                            The Science of Sleep & Circadian Rhythm
12 March 2019  Air Pollution (Part 2) - Particulate Matter PM10 and PM2.5 - 
                                Brake and  Tyre Wear are Higher Emitters than Car Exhausts
21 January 2019  Global Greenhouse-Gas (GHG) Emissions by Humans and Animals 
11 January 2019  SLEEP (Part 1): Why Do We Need to Sleep Eight Hours per Day? 
                                    Malaise caused by Impaired, Insufficient Sleep
27 December 2018  Routines; Habits and Addiction; An Outreach Feature
16 December 2018  Are the Young More Creative/Innovative? - Not Really (Part 2)
09 December 2018  Are the Young More Creative/Innovative? - Not Really -
                                    Another Example of Perils of Perception (Part 1)

28 November 2018  Ethics of Eating Meat - We Need to Factor-in Sustainability

26 November 2018  A Magic Square based Party Game

25 November 2018  Why Do Humans Have two Front-Facing Eyes? 

                                    An Analysis & Some New Ideas

17 November 2018  Air Pollution (Part 1) - The Invisible Killer; 

                                    Particulate Matter PM2.5

27 October 2018  In Praise of BMI: Not Perfect But an Exceedingly Useful and 

                                    Convenient  Parameter for Measuring Obesity

23 October 2018  Over-population is 'Elephant in the Room'; 

                            Why Do We Not Address the Real Problem?

21 October 2018         Recreational Maths with Smartphone Calculator - 

                                 10 Games to Wow Your Friends

16 October 2018        Additive and Multiplicative 3X3 Magic Squares - 

                                 Construction and Some Not So Well Known Properties

6 October 2018       Obesity in Children - Weight at Ages 3 to 6 is Critical in  
                                    Determining Obesity in Later Life
21 September 2018  Perimeter and Area of Regular Polygons - 
                                    From Triangles to Circles -  The Iso-Perimetric Theorem
9 September 2018   The Rise of Tech Companies - Threat to Privacy and Freedom - 
                                        Cyber Dystopia
11 August 2018      A Simple Estimate of Global Mean Sea Level Rise due to
                                        Increase in Global Temperatures
3 August 2018        Myths and Hypes about the Ubiquity of the Amazing Golden Ratio; 
                                 Its Relation to Fibonacci Numbers; Logarithmic Spiral, Phyllotaxis 
                                 and the Pentagram
6 July 2018            Derivation of nth Term of a Lucas Sequence - 
                                 Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio
7 June 2018           Enhanced Reactivity of Powders, Number of Surface Atoms; 
                             Inter-Atomic and -Molecular Forces
31 May 2018          Sum of Powers of Digits in a Number - 
                                 Iterations lead to a Fixed Point or a Limit Cycle 
25 May 2018             Optimal Car Separation at Traffic Lights - 
                                 Current Driving Habits Require a Rethink
21 May 2018          Surface to Volume Ratio for a Spheroid, 
                                 Cylinder, Cone and Rectangular Box - A Quantitative Analysis
13 May 2018             Climbing a Conical Mountain -- Almost Impossible  
                                Shortest Path, and a Realistic Path You Can Use 
29 April 2018              A Couple of Challenging Geometry puzzles - Created by 
                                 Martin Gardner - Recreational Mathematics 
22 April 2018             What is the Number(s) of the Torn Page/Pages? - 
                                Two Seemingly Impossible Puzzles
18 April 2018         Division of a Huge Cake: An Interesting Mathematical Puzzle
21 February 2018    Undefined/Indeterminate Mathematical Operations 
                                 Involving Zero and Infinity lead to fallacies and paradoxes  
18 February 2018   Physics of Humidity, Relative 
                                Humidity, Health Implications of Low or High Humidity
12 February 2018   Letter Frequency in Spellings of Words and 
                                        Numbers in the English Language 
8 February 2018           Math Puzzles - How logical approach makes 
                                    them much more delicious
30 January 2018          The Awesome Number 2 : Puzzles, Games, 
                                    The Power of Doubling
28 January 2018            Number Puzzles for Mental Arithmetic Enthusiasts
26 January 2018            The Science of Hypothermia, Windchill, Frostbite -  When 
                                         Body's Thermal Regulation Mechanism is Unable to Cope...
23 January 2018       The Science of Heatstrokes (Hyperthermia) -  
                                        When Body's Thermal Regulation Mechanism 
                                        is Unable to Cope...
16 January 2018          Heat given off by a human body is about 100 Watt
15 January 2018          Galileo Galilei - Family Tree, Friends and Foes
Contact email:  ektalks@yahoo.co.uk


Courses  -  Each course is 8 to 12 hours duration.  Courses are suitable for 'inquisitive' laymen with no serious science background. The courses are designed for outreach activity, non-mathematical and have been given in East Kilbride (Scotland) and other venues. 
Please click on a course to start:

Albert Einstein and his Theories of Relativity 







Great Scottish Inventors 
James Watt
 Lord Kelvin
 Alexander Fleming
 Alexander Graham Bell
 James Clerk Maxwell

Nuclear Weapons - The story of the Atomic Bomb
 (Radio-isotope Dating)     





























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