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May 31, 2007
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....
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.
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....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 7:10 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2007
Category: astro
Interesting short opinion article in Wired...
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!...
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....
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....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2007
Category: academia
The good thing about having semi-permanent outposts in alternative jurisdiction is you get so much more freedom in personnel matters...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
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Category: astro
28 new planets announced at the AAS summer meeting...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:27 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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