Ishi (ca. 1860 - March 25, 1916) was the last member of the Yahi, the last surviving group of the Yana people of the U.S. state of California. Widely acclaimed in his time as the "last wild Indian" in America, Ishi lived most of his life completely outside European American culture. Finall...
Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British scientist and the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine. Read moreSpoiler
John Locke FRS (29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Read more[spoiler][/spo...
Jan Sniadecki (August 29, 1756 - November 9, 1830) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Read more
Soyuz TM-6 was the sixth manned spacecraft to visit the Soviet Space Station Mir. It was launched in August 1988, during the station's third long-duration expedition, Mir EO-3. The three person crew that was launched consisted of Research Doctor Valeri Polyakov, who became part of the EO-3 crew, a...
Meitnerium was first synthesised on August 29, 1982 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt. The team bombarded a target of bismuth-209 with accelerated nuclei of ir...
Charity Fashion Show 29 August 2012 Hollywood glitz is coming to Edinburgh as adults with learning disabilities take to the stage to raise funds at a charity fashion show tomorrow night 29 August 2012. Movies are the theme of the catwalk event which has been organised by the North East Edinburgh Comm...
Anna-Lisa Varri (Milan) Self-consistent models of quasi-relaxed rotating stellar systems Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars Time: 13:15-13:45 Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA, University of Cambridge Read more
Sunspots 11555 (bottom left), 11553 (bottom right) and 11554 (top) captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam and solar filter. Music composed on an Amiga 1200
Renewable firms competing for £10m Saltire Prize to be named The renewable energy companies competing for the £10m Saltire Prize will be announced by the Scottish government later. The announcement will be made in Orkney, where members of the Scottish Cabinet will meet on Wednesday. [url=http:/...
Mating mites trapped in amber reveal sex role reversal In the mating game, some female mites are mightier than their mates, new research at the University of Michigan and the Russian Academy of Sciences suggests. The evidence comes, in part, from 40 million-year-old mating mites preserved in Balt...
HELLO FROM EARTH (HFE) is an Interstellar Radio Message (IRM). It was sent from the 70-meter dish at NASA Deep Space Station 43 (Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex), at midday on Friday 28 August 2009. The message was directed at the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 581, which has its own planetar...
The 16 - 36 metre wide asteroid 2010 SC will make a close pass (65.3 lunar distances, 0.1679 AU), travelling at 9.56 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th August, 2012 @ 09:05 UT ±1 day 19:26. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
The 1400 metre wide asteroid Castalia will make a close pass (44.2 lunar distances, 0.1135 AU), travelling at 12.06 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th August, 2012 @ 17:06 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer, artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on bota...
