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February 27, 2007
Category: random
I see SEED has sold ad space for the new Discovery Channel buzz episode, the purported discovery of the family grave of Yeshua bar Yosef, aka Jesus Christ, complete with his bones, along those of his wife Mary, mother Mary,...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:49 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Poetic lot those ancients. There is a total lunar eclipse this weekend, saturday at midnight in western Europe, right at sunset on the east coast of the US....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2007
Category: astro
David Weintraub has written a really delightful little book on the Pluto controversy....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:19 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2007
Category: astro
in which I triangulate on string theory and quantum gravity and ponder the "Trouble with Physics"... which is that physicists are hired the same way we pick apples at the supermarket. Look! Shiny! Big! Red!...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:39 AM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
Wow, friday again... we'll be delocally topical and ask: Oh mighty iPod, is the very space-time metric upon which we calculate our oh so effective theories really an emergent phenomenon of a more dynamic and fundamental planckian structure? Whoosh goes...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:22 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Brutally blunt ScienceCareers article on this year's NASA funding Article summarises the current situation well, focusing on a couple of hard hit fields like astrobio and Earth observations....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:07 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2007
Category: random
WaPo has the IAEA report to the UN on Iran's compliance or lack thereof (PDF) Good stuff on Verification blog...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Rob of Galactic Interactions has finally joined the SciBling collective All shall be assimilated....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
the US navy right now has two expeditionary strike groups and two carrier strike groups in the Arabian Sea. PS: Armada vs Iran - curious set of stories in the Telegraph. Something is being telegraphed....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:48 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2007
Category: random
O frabjous day! Billy Bragg Podcast #7 - walls come tumbling down and Internationale comes out. Great stuff....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:59 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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