iPod iChing - wassup with '007?
Category: random
Last friday of the year, so we ask the Mighty iPod - what will be up in the next year? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
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Dynamics of Cats
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December 29, 2006
December 28, 2006
"Are you now, or have you ever been, tenured?"
Category: academia
I am doing an NSF study on career outcomes for NSF applicants and grant recipients. The above is, verbatim, a question. I guess the survey writer either has a very good sense of humour, or none at all....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:08 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 27, 2006
COROT launch
Category: astro
COROT launched successfully on a Soyuz COROT is a small transit survey telescope, launched by CNES (France) to look for low mass planets. Secondary science is astroseismology and stellar structure from high precision photometry time series. Good luck....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2006
dissed by the best
Category: academia
What's a time in your career when you were criticized extremely harshly by someone you respect? Did it help you or set your career back?... When I were a lad we used to have to walk to grad school, barefoot...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:13 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 25, 2006
So, you want to be an astrophysicist? Part 2.5 - grad school
Category: astro
Gleðileg Jól! Another blast from the past of Ye Olde Blogge You're in grad school. Yay. Now wtf do you do......
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December 24, 2006
So you want to be an astrophysicist? Part 2.0 - GRE at
Category: astro
More repeats from Ye Olde Blogge So you want to be an astrophysicist? You've suffered through 3-4 years of undergrad, and you're ready for more. You picked the places to apply to (or have you...?), and you're ready for the...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 23, 2006
Eat Drink and Be Merry
Category: random
Razib reminds us of the reason for the season So celebrate the Feast of Holy St Thorlacius. Eat some rotten skate. 'Cause you never know, the Sun might not come up tomorrow if you don't. Any excuse......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So, you want to be an astrophysicist? v 1.99 - prospective grads
Category: astro
Prospective graduate students: for when you visit - a classic...
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December 22, 2006
Merry F#!*ing Christmas NASA - from Congress
Category: astro
2007 year budget to clone the 2006 budget with no earmarks or emergency appropriations This implies no increases for NASA or NSF. "...NASA expects to adjust priorities within the Science, Aeronautics and Exploration appropriations account to manage the impact."...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:08 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bill Bragg Podcast #6
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Billy Bragg podcast #6 is up: Talking with the Taxman about Poetry Oh, joyous season!...
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