game on?
Category: random
So the USS Nimitz leaves San Diego on monday with its strike group, destination Arabian Sea...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:50 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dynamics of Cats
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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March 31, 2007
March 30, 2007
Law of Large Numbers: $$$ edition
Category: astro
As the number of proposals submitted go to infinity, most all researchers must have near average success rate.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:22 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
HST cycle 16 announced
Category: astro
STSCI just announced cycle 16 selections......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:18 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More bad pet food news
Category: random
Apparently an FDA press conference this morning gave some bad news on pet food....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - $$$
Category: random
Oy vey, it is friday again. On this season of passing over, we intrepidly approach the mighty iPod One, and ask humbly: what about funding, oh Mighty Omnipotent iPod? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whooooooosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:33 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 28, 2007
smallpox scare in air
Category: random
USAir flight 1014 - New Orleans-Charlotte held on runway while man tested for smallpox Update: He was the Director of the Navy Medical Service Corps? (kos diary) That is weird....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Evil Genius Redux
Category: astro
Ouch. Julianne treads where few dare......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:25 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deadly Dark Matter
Category: astro
"...invisible clouds of something that seem to swaddle the galaxies, and to provide the scaffolding for the structure and evolution of the visible universe." "It's about power, in a way."...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:14 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Political Paranoia
Category: random
There is a lot of speculation in the non-US press and in blogs about an imminent US strike on Iran, what with two US carriers in the Persian Gulf (and two Marine amphibious groups), the incident with the UK...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Paranoia
Category: science
The Incoherent Ponderer just submitted a paper to Science, and got an e-mail notifying him that he was listed as a co-author and asking him to do something if he did not accept this. I had the same thing...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2007
wikisky
Category: astro
wikisky?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:23 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - I've got an idea...
Category: random
Oops, friday again already. So, we ask the omniscient iPod - got any good ideas? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:29 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
the best student complaint ever
Category: academia
I am soooo jealous h/t PZ...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:29 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2007
pet food contamination
Category: science
As widely reported in the media, a number of cat and dog foods were recalled in the US after a common supplier decided there was a problem with their new wheat gluten supplier (a common additive). 10 animals (9...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:31 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2007
why do we hold people back
Category: astro
IF we grant the perception that researchers are being held back from doing some of the "really interesting research", then why do we do it, especially if people are aware of it as an issue?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 7:39 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
ideas of your own
Category: astro
When, in the course of an academic career, should you work on your own ideas: you know, the stuff that deep down you think is really interesting, potentially breakthrough stuff. Because, most scientists, most of the time, don't....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 6:55 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
snippets of life, ca
Category: random
seen in the back of a not-so-expensive model from an expensive car maker: "How to make money from foreclosures" heard at a a slightly non-random brunch spot, couple of tables to the left: "no, you need to go to...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Backreaction, Apples and Democracy
Category: astro
Bee follows up the legendary Science and Democracy and Science and Democracy II: the Hierarchy Problem with...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:47 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Vernor Vinge would be proud
Category: random
The Department of Justice has released 3000 paper documents in response to the House judiciary committee request investigating the dismissal of federal US attorneys. The committee staff have started posting the documents in 50 page blocks of scanned PDF files!,...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NASA: the pain goes on
Category: astro
via NASAwatch we have the promised March 15 statement on how the new budget request impact NASA actuals...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:42 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A few pints short
Category: science
I am counter to the old saying that you can't squeeze blood from stone, having been a proud member of the Red Cross "gallon club" and counting. But I am now not permitted to give blood in the US,...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:51 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dangeral Professors 2: A Crooked Style
Category: academia
Chad has news of newbies at Crooked Timber...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:44 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2007
NASA: Alpha to Omega
Category: astro
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a billion++ $ experiment designed to look at cosmic rays (and to have the absolutely worst set of project web pages yet discovered). In particular it will look at the anti-matter content of cosmic...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:39 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NASA: the Stern Look
Category: astro
Interesting article in Science on the challenge facing Dr Stern in taking over NASA's Science Mission Directorate...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:51 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2007
iPod iChing - Free?
Category: random
It is friday, sunny friday, so we spontaneously ask the Mighty iPod: do we actually have Free Will? Woosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:35 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 15, 2007
What We Need More of is Science
Category: astro
MC Hawking raps...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 8:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Functional Free Will
Category: science
Are we predictable? If we know someone is trying to predict, are we still predictable?
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:17 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 14, 2007
NYT caters to liberal elite
Category: academia
I feel slightly ambivalent about this, but New York Times "Select" content is now available free for students and faculty with valid university e-mail addresses...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:38 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
competitive lecturing
Category: astro
note to self: check who else is giving talks in town that day before picking dates......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:12 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2007
NASA hints?
Category: astro
The NASA ROSES-2007 is out. This is the omnibus announcement of opportunity/request for proposals for most of th in-house activities for the science mission directorate - everything from evolutionary biolology through test of relativity via the moon and mars...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
selection biases and risk assessment
Category: random
flicking across cnn.com, I see a propane train derailment and an oil well fire in Texas is it heigtened awareness, broader reporting to fill cable news shows, or is there a higher incidence of petrochemical and industrial chemical accidents...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
that's curious
Category: random
In my previous sunday night ramblings on world non-events I said there was no sign of a surge in submarine deployment I was wrong....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:48 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Holistic Yarn Theory
Category: astro
Like String Theory, but more Crafty.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:59 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bush ehr?
Category: random
Curious, the Iranian news agency say the Bushehr nuclear reactor is to be operational (but not fueled) on tuesday and that the fuel is to be delivered within two weeks!, but......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:25 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 11, 2007
Significant SF
Category: random
I see the Sciblings are reading most significant science fiction and fantasy...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 9, 2007
iPod iChing - PZ'Ching
Category: random
It is friday morning, and happy birthday PZ! So, we approach the mighty iPod and we ask... what does the iPod have to say about PZ? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:33 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Numerology of PZ
Category: random
Nifty, nifty, nifty! PZ now'll be fifty! We all a poem must produce Proper homages as we choose...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 8, 2007
whacky week
Category: astro
Talking of which, last week I put together the whackiest research proposal I have ever done....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:17 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 7, 2007
The Purpose of Academia
Category: academia
Teacher, Educator, Researcher or Charity Worker...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 7:23 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Strings and Apples
Category: astro
I discuss Apples in Academia, And why string theory is cute when it is angry.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:39 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 6, 2007
Wunderpalace
Category: random
California, again. At least it is sunny this time. Weird and very tiring trip. Tom still has that magic touch with parties though, and sunsets over the Pacific are as beautiful as ever....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:46 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 2, 2007
iPod iChing -ides of March
Category: random
New month, new iPod divinations... So, oh mighty iPod, what is in store for us this month then? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Woosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 1, 2007
fuelling rumours
Category: random
unconfirmed AsiaTimes article claims "refueling assets" are being relocated to Diego Garcia...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
