The Pale Blue Dot Blog

Life from a planetary perspective

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Seeing Earth from space is an experience like no other. Four seasoned astronauts, Helen Sharman, Dan Tani, Mike Barratt and Jean-Francois Clervoy recall what it was like in our latest video.

Part of ‘A Place Called Space’, our 2015 advent calendar.

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Homo naledi: New species of ancient human discovered, claim scientists

Bones found in South African cave are Homo naledi, a new species of ancient human relative, say researchers, but some experts are sceptical of find

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How to feel good about poverty - This is a must-see

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Paul Mason: capitalism is failing, and it's time to panic

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The moon transiting earth as seen from 1 million miles away

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"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality  and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."

Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)

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Everything you need to know about the history of the universe in under 8mins!

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From top to bottom, historic photos of Earth taken from Space. The first: taken with a 35mm camera attached to a V2 rocket, launched above New Mexico in 1946. The last: a high-quality colour image of Earth, taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC)  in July 2016. 

Earth from a million miles away: Dscovr satellite sends groundbreaking photo

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Morning On Mars

 Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter

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Act on climate change now, top British institutions tell governments

Joint letter by 24 scientific, medical and engineering bodies say mitigation will also bring economic and health benefits

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Awesome photo of Earth from space....

“A Nasa camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (Dscovr) satellite – hanging in gravitational balance between the Earth and the sun – has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of the planet from one million miles away.The satellite was launched in February on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket and recently reached its planned orbit at the first Lagrange point or L1, where Nasa says it will be able to constantly take science-quality images of the entire sunlit face of the Earth.” via Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/21/earth-from-a-million-miles-away-dscovr-satellite-returns-groundbreaking-picture 

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Lord Deben on climate change - BBC Radio 4

On the Today programme this morning, Lord Deben from the Committee on Climate Change gave a great rebuttal to John Humphreys about climate science – you can check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06085ch at 02:41:20 I know nothing of Lord deben but I thought he handled it brilliantly and echoed many of the annoyances I have felt when listening to Radio 4 on climate change as they…

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Neil Shubin documentary series - Your Inner fish

Neil Shubin documentary series – Your Inner fish

Neil Shubin A fantastic new series has started in the UK on the BBC and I think that it is also available in the US via PBS – it’s based on Neil Shubin’s book Your Inner Fish and traces the evolutionary biology of humans from early life to modern day. Shubin is great as a presenter as he is so into it and full of excitement and enthusiasm, he also seems like quite a good laugh too. Your Inner…

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Live without dead time

My piece in Adbusters - I barely recognise it from my submission but hey, I got paid, they sent me as many copies of the issue as I wanted and also gave me a free subscription.