xenophobia

The Stories We Tell About Inventors – and Their White Male Protagonists

The Names We Use to Describe Our Diseases – A Story From Colonial India

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How Science Played a Part in Bringing About Our Fear of the ‘Outsider’

The new PARLA laser in operation at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. The yellow-orange beam of the brilliant seven-watt laser is seen emerging from the dome of Unit Telescope 4 of the Very Large Telescope. In the background the Large Magellanic Cloud can also be seen. The laser creates an artificial star high in the atmosphere that can be used to correct images for the turbulence of the air and form much sharper pictures. Credit: European Southern Observatory, CC BY 4.0

How Could We Build an Invisibility Cloak to Hide Earth from an Alien Civilisation?