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Caden Howlett

AstroWeekly: A shared planet

From the depths of the North Pacific Ocean, a 170,000-kilogram blue whale rises through a swarm of krill on its way to break the surface. In eastern Africa, giraffes wander across the rolling grasslands of the savanna with no particular destination. Meanwhile, herds of wild yak’s graze

AstroWeekly: The Dyson Sphere

The advancement of our species has largely hinged on our ability to harness more energy over time. Early energy provided by the control of fire was followed by the industrialization of our planet utilizing coal and oil/natural gas. Once we learned how to split an atom, atomic energy sourced

Astro Weekly: The AI Function

Right now, as you read this, there are hundreds of brilliant human minds working tirelessly in an attempt to create artificial intelligence (AI). Even more individuals are working on creating technology that will assist in achieving this goal. As computing power doubles every two years (Google “Moore’s Law”), we

Banff Mountain Film Festival Visits Bozeman

From my seat in the corner of Bozeman’s Willson Auditorium, I watched waves of light and sound wash over a captivated audience. These waves came from a selection of world-class short-films brought to Bozeman as part of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. The three-day

Astro Weekly: The birth of a black hole

When the very concept of a black hole first emerged around 1915 from the theory of general relativity, Albert Einstein suspected that his math was flawed. Subsequent theoretical work suggesting the existence of a gravitational singularity (a place where the laws of physics don’t exist) resulted in more skepticism.

Astro Weekly: A Special Shoutout to Trees

A few hundred years before the ancient Egyptians constructed the Pyramids of Giza, a seed germinated in the soil of western North America. Today, nearly 5,000 years later, that seed lives on as Methuselah—the current oldest tree on Earth. This tree came into existence when the world population

Astro Weekly: The Great Divide

Sculpted by a never ending combination of plate tectonic motion and erosion, the wonderful and dynamic crust of planet Earth presents us with awe-inspiring landscapes. Tectonic plates scrape past one another, diverge, and crash together, and the rocky crust of our planet is torn, exhumed, deformed, and uplifted. As