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Category: astro
NASAwatch reports more top level moves at NASA time to start managing the crisis that keep popping up...
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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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Old Favourites:
- Global warming on Mars? (or here, here, or here)
- WMAP for Dummies
- Fractal Dust, LEDs and Cracks in the Cosmos
- On The Proper Subject Order in High School
- Iranian Nukes: Plain Language version
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July 30, 2007
got bottle?
Category: random
Domestik Goddess shows us a SIGGart Eco Style contest winner I like it. Elegant, subtle, concise. h/t powers of four...
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little pleasures
Category: random
Receiving "Back in the DHSS/Trumpton Riots" CD in the mail, finally replacing my very beat up cassette copy... Half Man, Half Biscuit are one of the most underappreciated UK bands around, and they've been around for a long time. 'course...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:45 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2007
losing the battle
Category: random
didn't check my e-mail for 24 hours, weekend, very light on "real e-mail" so I got good statistics on the spam we're losing...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:15 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2007
one down
Category: astro
Congratulations Dr Smith! The Transition from the First Stars to the Second Stars in the Early Universe...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - doctor who?
Category: random
Frazzled friday, and we ask the iPod, quickly: so, iPod dood, what will come out of this afternoon's proceedings? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:51 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2007
The Telescope: Review
Category: astro
Geoff Andersen is a USAF Academy physicist and he has written a book on the Telescope...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:56 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
explosion at Scaled Composites
Category: astro
news reports of an explosion killing two people at the Scaled Composites (makers of "http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/index.htm">SpaceShipOne) facility at the spaceport in Mojave, near Edwards AFB Ca. Sounds like a fuel tank rupture, four people injured. SF Chronicle report - they say...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2007
what if there was a terrorist attack and nobody noticed?
Category: random
There was a fire in Spokane...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:32 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
how did that happen...
Category: random
Three PhD defences, and a comps exam in 12 days. Ouch. And I'm chair of all the vivas, and the comps is in meteo... Some sort of subliminal overcompensation, I guess....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:22 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NASA veto threat
Category: astro
President threatens veto of NASA appropriations: too much science dontcha know......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:33 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 23, 2007
confessions in higher ed
Category: academia
InsideHigherEd appears to have assimilated the Confessions of a Community College Dean blog hope it is a permanent arrangement, the CoaCCD blog is a good read, and enhances the IHE web site current advice to adjunct looking for tenure...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:35 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 20, 2007
In which I join the Order of the Shrill!
Category: random
"...the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked executive privilege"...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:08 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - which came first?
Category: random
Cool and busy friday, and we ask the Mighty iPod One: PNA or RNA? Which came first? Oh, and how will The Party go tomorrow? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 19, 2007
NASA: nuthin' new
Category: astro
I haven't spent much time in that den of iniquity, DC, lately but... third hand rumours percolate back to me, and if I can't sleep, neither should you...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:19 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
we'll fight 'em over here then...
Category: random
Max Blumethal goes wild...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:52 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chief Scientist in the State Department
Category: science
Prof Nina Fedoroff is to become Chief Scientist at the State Department and science advisor to Condoleezza Rice...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:42 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 18, 2007
incoherently pondering academic efficiency
Category: science
The incoherent ponderer has interesting advice on efficiency in research Take note....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Galaxy Zoo
Category: astro
Find and classify your own damned galaxy.......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:14 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Help Harvard...
Category: academia
Where Most Needed worries about elite university endowment, and InsideHigherEd decides to be helpful...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:09 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Freaky Foreigners
Category: random
Roasted beagle, with schmear......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2007
Pirate anniversary
Category: random
It was 380 years ago today that "turkish pirates" raided the southwest of Iceland and took 242 slaves into captivity in Algiers......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Rob gets a second life
Category: academia
Read it and ponder......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 13, 2007
Food for thought
Category: academia
The Female Science Professor lays it down: ...would you rather be a professor at: 1. A university that is located in a city/region in which you would love to live, but at which most of your faculty colleagues would...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:44 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - hot august?
Category: random
It is cool, sunny festive friday, and so we cheerfully bop along over to the iPod, and ask: what is in store for us in August now? Anything hot? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 11, 2007
Detection of water on extrasolar planet
Category: astro
IR spectroscopic detection of water on extrasolar planet. Nature paper.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"No solar link to global warming"
Category: science
duh...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:06 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 10, 2007
shortest feature ever
Category: random
The Science of Harry Potter?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:43 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
naval chess
Category: random
So, the rumours are true, the USS Enterprise is scooting back to the Persian Gulf - usual game issue - could be regular rotation, with one of the two carriers already there going home (Stennis should head back in August...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:53 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 9, 2007
apropos nothing
Category: random
So I'm catching up on e-mail with half an eye on the idiot box where my better half is watching the new episode of the "Closer"... it is good, almost good enough to make me stop what I'm doing...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:17 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 6, 2007
JDEM selection
Category: astro
I just noticed curious language in the DoE Senate Appropriations Committe statement on JDEM...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:07 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More interesting planets
Category: astro
High mass planets around metal poor red dwarfs, may put small crack in big theory...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - Carter's Argument
Category: random
Sunny, happy friday. We approach the iPod, and we ask - is Carter's Large Number Coincidence Argument valid, or does it fail for one or both of the two obvious reasons? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 5, 2007
Ideals
Category: science
Bush may like to think he is non-abelian, but we know he has a nilpotent subgroup. Not only does he have a nilpotent subset of ideals, but the interesection of his prime ideals is nilradical! Phbt!...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:19 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 3, 2007
Dr May
Category: astro
Congratulations Dr Brian May Hm, I wonder if he will be looking for a postdoc......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Competence in Government
Category: random
It was a rough week for the UK, with record floods and terrorist attacks in the middle of a change of government. As the Y-Ranter points out, the bureaucracy dealt with it in stride Y'know, they really did. The...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 1, 2007
what is planet
Category: astro
the planet definition wars are going to start heating up soon
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:49 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Clean Tech: Review
Category: random
"The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity"...
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