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September 29, 2006
Category: random
Traveling friday, and we ask a timely question: Oh Mighty Omniscient One - who will the Academy give the nod to next week for that most noble of all science prized? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:27 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
Drove to DC today. Took six hours, rather longer than planned. Car transporter jack-knifed on the PA turnpike, took out two 18 wheelers. If there were any passenger cars involved, they'd been cleared up by the time I got...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:20 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 27, 2006
Category: astro
Via NASAwatch - NASA administrator Griffin replies to the American Astronomical Societies' Six Questions On NASA Priorities and Processes...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:08 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: science
The 2006 Nobel Laureates will be announced on Monday, October 2. Any early guesses as to who this year's honorees will be?... No....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:44 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 26, 2006
Category: science
This spring I took a look at the Iranian nuclear options. The summary version is that I think the focus on uranium enrichment is a red herring (unless there is intelligence that says there is a policy decision in...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:47 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2006
Category: random
Lots of news and speculation on possible steps to mobilization by US forces to position for a strike on Iran. They couldn't be that stupid, could they? Old Speculation Updated....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:22 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
One of the topics at the Pale Blue Dot workshop last week was detection of technological biosignatures. Serious discussion on everything from "I Love Lucy", early warning radars, and Dyson Sphere's to isotopic signatures of fission waste disposal in...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:12 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
I have come to the conclusion that the Pearl Jam cover of Kick out the Jams is actually better than the original... Maybe I'm just getting old....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:05 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academia
a cabal of mandarin pundits says english is the new lingua franca...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:19 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 22, 2006
Category: science
Our masters voice speaks and Asks the ScienceBloggers: Why do men have a longer period of fertility, relative to their lifespan, than women? (Bonus: is this true of other species as well?)... I Am Not A Biologist, but... I am...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:33 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
