November 1, 2013

How to See the Hybrid Solar Eclipse This Weekend

The last solar eclipse of 2013 will take place November 3 and it will be a hybrid solar eclipse, meaning it will start out as an annular eclipse with a “ring of fire” (depicted above) and then become a full solar eclipse.

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The Slooh Space Camera will livestream this portion of the eclipse, as seen from Kenya, from 6:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. ET Sunday.

So stand by, and then tune in here.

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

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The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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