Powder Day
Category: astro
Aaaaarrrrrgghhhh! Powder Day declared with 24 inches of fresh powder!...
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November 29, 2006
Category: astro
Aaaaarrrrrgghhhh! Powder Day declared with 24 inches of fresh powder!...
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Category: academia
Acephalous is trying to measure meme speeds, but we are theorists, dammit, a model prediction is needed! So what is the asymptotic speed of a free small meme in the wild web?...
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Category: astro
Astrobiology journal is making available for free the recently compiled Student Primer for Astrobiology Aimed at graduate students or advanced undergrads. It is good. Full text (79 pages) PDF link...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:17 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
The Astrophysics Enabled By the Return to the Moon Workshop is on right now at the Space Telescope Science Institute. It is webcast (link above)....
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Category: academia
Archeologists think they have found the ruins of the Great Hall of King Harald I Fairhair (Haraldr Hárfagri) at Avaldsnes in west Norway. It was the site of the halls of local chieftans and then the Kings of Norway...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:43 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: science
What's the funniest lab accident you've ever had?......
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November 28, 2006
Category: random
For some strange reason the book I grabbed for the latest travel is a paperback of "Who Dares Wins", Geraghty's anecdotal account of Special Air Service (UK) history from 1950 (Malaya) to 1982 (Falklands) and the regiment's involvement in...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
The US consumes about 385 million gallons of motor gasoline per day...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:29 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academia
In US college sports half the teams lose each time a game is played. This is recipe for frustration for supporters who expect teams to win.
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Category: random
Chad spreads contagious concepts. if this were a real meme you would now be getting ideas Acephalus wants data on meme propagation speeds through blogs for the MLA. Read, link and accelerate. Don't want to be a deadender, now...
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