SCIENCE

Photos via Fast Company.

In The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, British author J.R.R. Tolkien created a fantasy world called Middle-Earth for his dragons, elves, dwarves, and wizards to inhabit, but he only ever rendered it in text. Now, a team of Danish programmers is taking Tolkien’s descriptions of Middle-Earth and rendering it on computers, on a truly planetary scale. Read full article and watch more photos in Fast Company. E.T.P. 5'

                                               St. John’s College, Cambridge, where Dirac discovered his famous equation.                    Image: Andrew Dunn via Science Museum's Blog.

Collider exhibition curator Dr. Harry Cliff writes a post in the Science Museum blog on Dirac’s discoveries and anticipating antimatter. "It was 86 years ago on Saturday that one of the most important scientific papers of the 20^th century appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Written by the young British physicist Paul Dirac, it was simply titled A Quantum Theory of the Electron, and was nothing short of a theoretical triumph." Read full article in the Science Museum's Blog. E.T.P. (if you already understand Dirac's equation) 8' / (if you don't, but you want to) 2 years.