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Speculations on astronomy, astrophysics, news I find interesting, theoretical issues, science and science policy. I will digress into computational physics, science fiction and general issues and basically whatever I feel like whenever. And, of course, cats.
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October 31, 2006
Category: academia
Scholarships-Ar-US have nominated 10 student bloggers for a nice little scholarship. Go vote (it is resistant to Chicago voting, must have a cookie and only lets you visit the voting page once, despite the stakes I imagine few people...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Toil and Trouble Griffin, Weiler and Mikulski are live on NASA TV right now to make the announcement on Hubble servicing mission number 4. And the winner is......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:58 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 30, 2006
Category: random
good old days......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:18 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
Sean is on a roll Go read....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
DeLong explains why hexapodia is the key insight In a perfect world it'd be TeX on an Alpha, but a Mac will do. Fortunately Google Does No Evil....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
"...As the country drifts slowly to war" Update: Why do I keep hammering on the "paranoid Iran scenario"? Because I am worried that the decision to "take out" Iran has been made in DC, and that it is now merely...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:21 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
Sweden. Denmark next. Not quite three Scandihoovian countries in three days, unless you count surface transits, but still... Sweden, though, is big. I had forgotten how big. And has changed in an interestingly subtle way....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:35 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 29, 2006
Category: random
Inaccurate in detail, and wishful. Cute, but real saints would have used C-17s and Chinooks, not B-2s(!?) and Apaches... Kinda gets your feet tapping....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:02 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 27, 2006
Category: science
What's the most underfunded scientific field that shouldn't be underfunded?......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:11 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
It is friday, but only the 20th of Oct - we anticipate our movements and ask the iPod now, the question that gots to be asked. Oh, mighty iPod - is there an "october surprise"? Whoosh goes the randomizer....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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