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iRobot the makers of the Roomba robot vacuum have new toys......
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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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- Global warming on Mars? (or here, here, or here)
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September 28, 2007
iPod iChing - I propose, they dispose
Category: random
Off-season, but still two proposals in two days. So, oh Mighty iPod - given them vagaries of panels and those who run them, how will they dispose of what we propose? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
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September 27, 2007
climate of innuendo
Category: science
strange allegation that NASA climate scientist, James Hansen, was "paid" by the Soros foundation......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:52 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 26, 2007
Ahmadinejad blog
Category: random
Now there's an insult: they must have put Ahmadinejad in one of those annoying fancy hotels that charge for internet access, 'cause he still hasn't blogged the Columbia visit, and no liveblog of the UN speech, either! In fact he...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:11 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Physical Science Carnival Coming Up
Category: science
I'm hosting the next physical science carnival: Philosophia Naturalis #14 on Oct 4th 2007. It is a memorable date, send me entries on any relevant physical science bloggings....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:54 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Carnival of Education #137
Category: academia
Carnival of Education #137 is up at Global Citizenship in a Virtual World...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2007
Academic Pleasures
Category: academia
What are your true, academic, pleasures?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:31 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
new look
Category: random
New banner image and design, courtesy of Josh Gemmell. Thanks. I like it. May redecorate eventually. We'll see how it goes....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:24 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Halo 3 development and Microserfs
Category: science
300 elite programmers for 3 years and $30 million?
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:54 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
no more F.U.'s!
Category: random
Tom Friedman on the Colbert Report has terminated the legendary Friedman Unit! No longer can we wait six months to see how things are going to develop in Iraq. It is decision time......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2007
nine years of hurt...
Category: random
Michigan has beaten PSU in football every year that I've been here...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:26 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2007
The Canon: A Review
Category: science
In a few years, I am going to leave this book lying out somewhere in my house and see if one of the kids picks it up and reads it....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:11 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2007
Mene Mene Tekel Parsin
Category: astro
NuSTAR lives!...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
can't be done
Category: academia
The Female Science Professor contemplates those who pass over good projects This is something to read and internalise. That means you....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:33 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - the ones that crawl out are fat and stout
Category: random
foggy cool autumnal friday, and so we ask the Mighty iPod, cryptically, are worm micelles the key insight? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:35 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2007
Mars invades Peru
Category: astro
Well, the Peruvians claim something from above hit them... Maleficent Mystery Meteorite Miasma....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:19 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 18, 2007
"looping" - keeping your teacher in lower grades
Category: academia
should K-12 students keep the same teacher for several grades, especially in lower grades?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:49 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
sign of the hanged god
Category: random
ties 'cause cooties Told you so! Some of us are just ahead of our times....
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September 17, 2007
sticking with the class
Category: academia
Should teachers track "their class" between grades, and should students stay with their classmates between years?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:15 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Iraq: standing up to Blackwater
Category: random
If the Iraqi police move against Blackwater, would the US Army fight?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:59 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
filamentous beginnings
Category: astro
Random Thoughts thinks about Gao and Theuns (sub) and the effects of a little bit of warm dark matter on early structure formation. arXiv copy...
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Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
Category: academia
DHS excludes revokes Mills College Prof and Elgar scholar visa....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:10 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Grad Skool Rulez
Category: academia
Total Drek: Unhelpful Hints...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:36 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wheel Turns
Category: random
Robert Jordan, author of the "Wheel of Time" fantasy series, and assorted Conan novels, died...
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September 14, 2007
iPod iChing - google lunacy
Category: random
Long and tiring friday, and we put the iPod to the test! Oh, Mighty iPod, will Google have to pay out on the Lunar X-Prize? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:18 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 13, 2007
Google fund lunar x-prize
Category: astro
Google is offering $30 million for anyone able to land a privately funded rover on the Moon by Dec 31st 2012...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:08 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Beyond Beyond Einstein
Category: astro
Ok, I read the BEPAC full report, all 201 pages. Interesting stuff, lots to glean from it....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:01 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 12, 2007
pirates, a-hoy!
Category: academia
A WaPo op-ed unveils a new skulk of the usual suspects. On the starboard side, mateys....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
the dress code for scientists
Category: academia
the incoherent ponderer ponders the (male) scientist dress code he likes to dress up, but no bowties...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:59 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 11, 2007
weird shit
Category: random
more strange goings on in the general vicinity of the Middle East...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:14 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
chip off the old block
Category: astro
dinosaur killer asteroid possibly traced back to specific belt asteroid collision...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
accelerating loneliness
Category: astro
Expanding Beyond All Understanding...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:15 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 10, 2007
sunless planets
Category: astro
free floating planets may harbour life without sunlight
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:15 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
conjugate transpose of suburbia
Category: random
Everytime I hear "Jesus of Suburbia" I think they sing "am I just self-adjoint"?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:29 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Che?
Category: random
On saturday I spend a fair fraction of the day seeing a small plane endlessly circling over town, and the local fooball stadium...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:45 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 9, 2007
California Dreaming
Category: academia
The Bitch, PhD is back on form...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:17 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 7, 2007
Old Ice
Category: science
Interesting animation series of arctic ice cover over the last 25 years or so, colour coded by age of ice......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:07 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - 2M1207B
Category: random
Steamy, sultry friday, and we ask the iPod: what is going on with 2M1207B? Is it a mash up, as predicted? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:54 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
fictional scenarios
Category: random
topical fiction about missiles and aircraft
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:21 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 6, 2007
Beyond Einstein - Report Webcast
Category: astro
NRC webcast of the panel report on Beyond Einstein The press releases are spinning this as all JDEM/SNAP - anyone hear what NASA actually said about launch priorities and LISA after the official report?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bears on the prowl
Category: random
Hm, a flight of eight Tupolev-95 Russian long range bombers buzzed the North Atlantic, oh, and Syria claims Israeli air force bombed their desert?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:55 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 5, 2007
Beyond Einstein - Verdict
Category: astro
The Beyond Einstein NRC review is complete. Dark Energy wins.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:57 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iDrool
Category: random
me want!...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:44 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
bombs over Kansas
Category: random
So the USAF took half-dozen nukes on an inadvertent roadtrip across the US heartland...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:53 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 4, 2007
when september ends
Category: random
BREAKING: Iceland withdraws from Iraq
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 2, 2007
B10
Category: random
The "Big 10" Channel just launched. A channel dedicated to showing just the college athletics of the eleven teams in the Big Ten conference...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 1, 2007
things in motion
Category: random
there are some interesting air national guard unit activations taking place...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
