Category: random
Lubos makes a provocative comment to my contemplation of Griffin's comments on climate change I can't resist following it up, despite its inappropriateness....
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Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:12 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: science
It may be arrogant to make climate choices, but to not choose is the most arrogant chocie of all.
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Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:20 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
It is a Blue Moon tonight at 9 pm Eastern. For some of us, but not everyone, strangely enough....
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Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 7:10 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Interesting short opinion article in Wired...
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Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:05 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Why do black holes stick around in galaxies despite their violent dynamical history? A brilliant young postdoc has an answer!...
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Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Click through for high-res version From Mathias Pedersen, with permission This is excellent, even got the planets accurate and as close to scale as one might manage. Good stuff....
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Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:06 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
You have got to like a book which concludes with a tale from the Edda... "Traveling at the Speed of Thought" is a new book by Daniel Kennefick on the history of the search for gravitational radiation....
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Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academia
The good thing about having semi-permanent outposts in alternative jurisdiction is you get so much more freedom in personnel matters...
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Category: astro
28 new planets announced at the AAS summer meeting...
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