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Well we’ve made it. It’s been a good run, but I have officially reached my 10th post here on this blog. I have quite enjoyed watching and commenting on these episodes of “The Cosmos” and in some ways I will miss it. That’s not to say that I won’t continue to watch the rest ofContinue reading “The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth”

Today I learned that there is such a thing as a hypernova and let me tell you, it was a shock. I had never heard that word and it blew little 12 year old Chris’ mind. I’m sure to a well learned astronomer there are far cooler things out there, but I’m content to learnContinue reading “Sisters of the Sun”

Oddly enough I thought this was one of the most well structured episodes yet, having set up a seemingly high stakes mystery at the beginning and slowly working through the clues and history behind it. In a similar vein to some of the subjects I’ve discusses previously in this blog, the effects lead has onContinue reading “The Clean Room”

Having just made the last post minutes before watching this episode, I was pleased to learn more about a similar subject to that I had been musing about. The way our olfactory systems work to unlock memories has always been something that has fascinated me and it makes me wonder if light in our eyesContinue reading “Deeper Deeper Deeper Still”

As always, this episode was enjoyable to watch and educational enough, but I personally didn’t feel any connection to it. Despite not being my favorite, it is interesting to hear about all of the experiments that provided unexpected results that changed the world. Of all things in this episode, what I liked the most wasContinue reading “Hidden in the Light”

I would like to start off by saying that this is the coolest title yet and truly it did touch on one of the subjects that 13 year old me would have gone nuts for; black holes. Now I know that a lot of the science of what happens inside a black hole is justContinue reading “A Sky Full of Ghosts”

The History of Fish. That’s it. That’s all I have to say. After this episode I literally had to look up the book to know that it was true and I’m even more disappointed now that I know that it is. Despite this wild story of a book about fish being used to pay salaries,Continue reading “When Knowledge Conquered Fear”

This was actually an extremely educational episode. I learned a lot that added to what I already knew about evolution. For example, taking the specificity of the optic mechanism as it developed from single celled organisms to what we know as the eye today was fascinating! Not only that, but I learned that there haveContinue reading “Things Molecules Do”

I have always been curious about this particular show, “The Cosmos” and now that it’s a part of my curriculum I have no excuse to not watch it. The thing that stood out to me most about this particular opening episode was the very ending. Sure all of the information about space and time wasContinue reading “Standing Up in the Milky Way”

Hi there reader, this whole thing is very new, so bear with me. My name is Chris and I am an actor, a singer and a dancer (oh my!) but this blog isn’t about that, at least, not yet. As a kid I was always fascinated with the world. You know the way kids are,Continue reading “First and Foremost”