This morning’s eclipse was great fun. I wasn’t expecting to see much as it had been overcast for most of this week. But amazingly, just as the time of first contact approached, the sun broke through the clouds and we could see the moon move across the sun, covering 85% at the maximum point. The cloud actually acted as quite a good solar filter making it easier to take photos.

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What to blog about this week? For once there is no shortage of news tags. Last Sunday was International Women's Day—I did start writing another post on feminism, but put it to one side so I could finish my entry for the write-off. It is now the start of British Science Week, which surely calls for more ponies and science; and it's pi day, so we should have some mathematics from Pinkie. But all this is eclipsed—oh and there will be an eclipse next Friday, mustn't forget that—by the sad news of

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Think Friendship is Magic was just made to entertain young kids and sell toy ponies? Think again. Why would any sensible media firm invest in such a high quality product, when young children are the easiest possible target audience to please and would settle for far less? Doesn't seem to make much business sense. But Hasbro chose to give Lauren Faust creative freedom in the design of the show, and she used it to advance her own agenda, executed with real passion. Beyond its pretty pastel

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The next chapter of Time on Their Hooves is now out. Continuing this saga of timekeeping in Equestria.

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Today Horse Voice became my 100,000,000th follower. Thank you and welcome. And I was able to (almost) reciprocate the gesture and became his/her follower number 1,000,000,001.

Counting, of course, in binary (256 and 513 in decimal notation).

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Wikipedia on Pegasus: “everywhere the winged horse struck his hoof to the earth, an inspiring spring burst forth.” [1]

Derpy by NebulonB100

Fortunately the pegasi of Equestria manage water in more intelligent ways.

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I have, at last, uploaded the first three chapters of my new story Time on Their Hooves, now awaiting approval by moderators. This is the big one (by my standards). The final version will probably be around 30,000 words.

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This week I had the honour of having Breaking News and Weather featured by the Royal Canterlot Library. And the fun of doing the interview to accompany this, which you can read here. It's really great to get one of my stories placed among the best pony fiction, and nice to have done one

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Following last week's post about the lesson on special relativity which we received in It's About Time, I started to think about what this episode tells us about time travel in Equestria?

What do we know about time travel in our own universe?

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It is often said that every equation put into a popular science book will halve its sales. It is known that this is not true. But it's such a fun anecdote to put in the introduction, so we all keep repeating it.

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