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Neil de Grasse Tyson on the Colbert Report tonight. Third time. Talking Gliese 581 and "Night at the Planetarium" - the sequel. Excellent....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:40 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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April 29, 2007
fair cop
Category: astro
What is a fair non-science criterion for changing proposal funding priorities?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:51 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
trans-Atlantic grumbles
Category: random
is it just me, or is it becoming genuinely hard to find a finite priced trans-atlantic flight this summer? to anywhere over the pond. I've done a fair bit of travel on these routes over the years and I...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Don't look directly at Margaret
Category: astro
This is what happens when astronamers mix up the paperwork.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2007
elegance in foreign policy
Category: random
Russia has suspended its compliance with the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe over the issue of US forward based missile defence systems...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:48 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
World Bank Science Diluted
Category: science
Finanicial Times story on Wolfowitz aide trying to take out references to climate change in World Bank report via Brad deLong...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:28 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - Wazzup with COROT Bro?
Category: random
Early stormy friday, and we ask the Omniscient iPod to prognosticate What will we hear from the early COROT discovery announcement due any day now? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Philosophia Naturalis #9
Category: astro
Philosophia Naturalis #9 is up at Science and Reason Lots of good stuff....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2007
NASA and political vulnerabilities
Category: science
Was NASA science funding redirected for party political purposes leading up to the 2004 or 2006 elections?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:10 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
not fair?
Category: science
Shelley at Retrospectacle ran into a corporate tangle of moronicity to cut a long story short, she used a figure from a paper in discussing the article, which seems to be clear "fair use", and got a lawyer letter from...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:19 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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