This week on The Cluster F Theory Podcast, Prof Sophie Scott CBE talks about how the lack of physicality in online communication negatively affects our ability to handle stress and conflict. And Tim laughs a lot.

open.substack.com/pub/thecluster…

It’s almost as if he didn’t understand what he was voting for …..

A few more from the Texas total eclipse… Next stop Greenland August 2026! #eclipse2024

The April 8, 2024 eclipse shadow over southeastern Canada and northern Maine photographed from the ISS

Very sorry to hear Peter Higgs has died. I was fortunate enough to meet him several times, and beyond being a famous physicist - I think to his embarrassment at times - he was always charming and modest. And of course his name will be remembered as long as we do physics in the…

I tried and failed to pronounce Leeuwenhoek in my Wonders of Life series and Matthew Cobb has never let me forget it.

Prof Sir John Curtice explains why the Brexit voters that The Labour Party has “re-captured” since 2019…

…are not actually Brexit supporters anymore.

Labour’s voting base all over the country is now more pro-EU, whether Keir Starmer likes it or not.

#OnThisDay 1974: Blue Peter featured an extraordinary bus that had its very own car, stored snugly away in the luggage compartment.

World Cup 78 on the BBC
The Argentine Melody!

The three body problem is one of the oldest quandaries in physics and astronomy. This is it in a nutshell:

skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/…

Since the earliest days of human spaceflight, astronauts have captured images of Earth from space. Some have had the rare opportunity to photograph an #eclipse from orbit.

Browse more pictures in our Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth: eol.jsc.nasa.gov 👩‍🚀📸

I'm very excited that my show about our place in the Universe, first performed at Sydney Opera House last year, is coming to Royal Opera House this summer. Tickets now available, and a little taster from the Sydney show below : roh.org.uk/tickets-and-ev…

This is interesting because the basic arguement matches a recent Telegraph opinion piece - and it’s both correct and naive. It’s correct because the only way Brexit could have worked economically speaking was to use it to deregulate, lower business taxes, shrink the state etc.…

Baroness Ashton talks about how we need to think in the long term, how we need to learn to negotiate with people we mightn’t actually like very much… and Doctor Who: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/7-n…

Thank you to everyone who came to Bucharest last night - it was one of the highlights of the tour for me. Next stop Sofia :-)

Let's go further and smash the whole £60,000 before the end of the weekend.
This is (literally) the biggest aviation heritage 'save' in a decade and we are in touching distance now. 🤞🤞
Any chance of a repost from my two most famous followers? James May Brian Cox

Only 3 years after this I joined DARE ‘s band Dare - he’s heroically playing something on the keys in the background - although I can’t hear what :-)