(Space debris in low Earth orbit) Last week, when I was floating around in space and watching chunks of the Apollo 11 spacecraft drift away below me, I wondered how much other space trash there might be

Good afternoon Steemit! I have a Christmas-themed watercolour for you this time. This was my first attempt at painting snow and it was super hard. I used this painting as a reference image to try and work

Good evening Steemit! I thought I'd share with you something I painted today. I've been meaning for a while to do a step-by-step set of photos to show my painting process, and I finally remembered this

Greetings Steemit - I have another watercolour for you! I painted this little octopus a few months ago after taking Ana Victoria Calderón's Skillshare class on Watercolour Textures. She's a fantastic teacher

In the spirit of experimentation on Steemit, I thought I might try posting a few of my watercolour pieces amongst my blog posts. This one is inspired by the cosmos, but more specifically nebulae - clouds

Say Cheese! Apollo 11 - NASA Last week I shared a post about how we are all residents of a tiny, fragile, blue speck of dust, floating in the midst of endless, black nothingness, and how we can now all

Earth Rise - Apollo 8 The Overview Effect There are many things about our cosmic reality that we are not aware of on a day to day basis. Take for example the illusion that right now as you are reading

One brain, two minds Did you know that it was possible for the two hemispheres of our brains to be independently conscious — and even to have differing opinions? For one hemisphere to believe in God, and

Oliver Sacks In February 2015, Oliver Sacks (pictured above) announced that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the liver, and had only months to live. When reading his beautiful and moving article

Alice in Wonderland (Wikipedia) Have you ever been sleepy and trying to concentrate on something, perhaps reading a book in bed as you begin to drift off to sleep, when things suddenly started to get a

(SETI@home) We live in an age of big data, where scientists have collected such a vast amount of information that they simply don’t have the manpower or resources to process it. However, with the rise

(Milky Way) Pondering the cosmos never fails to make me feel minuscule and insignificant, but it still reliably overwhelms me with awe and wonder. Below I’ve collected together a short list of a few of

Hello fellow Steemians! I just joined Steemit yesterday and I understand that the first thing to do is to introduce myself. So here goes! Please find below photographic evidence that it is indeed really