Atlantic Puffin
Category: random
Cute...
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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
- Imminence of the Eschaton
- Chasing the wrong variable
- Triumph of Evil
- Getting cold gets you colds
- What to do...
- Hæstaréttarmálaflutningslögmannsvinnukonuútidyralyklakippuhringurinn
- Bird 'flu for theorists
- The More You Write, The More You Write...
- King of Tambora
- Goethe's Revenge
- Food for Fighting - in praise of Skyr
- Is this going to be on the test?
January 30, 2008
how to write grad school app essays
Category: astro
Dos and Don'ts for grad school application essays
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:42 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 29, 2008
H or G?
Category: academia
Which is a better metric of faculty research performance, H or G?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:41 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2008
what would you have done?
Category: academia
Physics bloggers are quite taken with the recent financial market turmoil....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:52 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ni
Category: random
bo gi ru sa af er og um...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:43 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 25, 2008
Physicist musing
Category: astro
Physics GRE, financial market turmoil and the superconducting supercollider.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - days gone retrograde
Category: random
Frosty friday, but no snow! We can has snow? Oh, mighty iPod, we approach thee - is the key insight retrograde asymmetry on long time scales? Woosh goes the randomizer. Woosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2008
Carnival of Space #38
Category: astro
Carnival of Space #38 up at Sorting Out Science...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:53 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jonessssssson - a happy ending
Category: random
Jason Jones' quest for a Modern Valkyrie ends...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cosmology for Cats 5
Category: astro
Did I mention space is big...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:25 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cosmology for Cats 4
Central principles of cosmology were discussed...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:18 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2008
Jason Jonesson Goes to Iceland
Category: random
Finally, the Comedy Show starts airing the sequence shot in Iceland last autumn....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:08 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Caltech Space Studies Institute
Category: astro
Keck gives Caltech $24 million to fund a new space studies institute....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2008
Astro Cat Pics Needed
Category: random
I need photos of cats....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:54 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - icy frontiers
Category: random
Snowy sunny friday, and the big chill is moving in, finally. So, we ask the tres cool iPod - whence the Frontier? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2008
Sex with Robots
Category: random
Love and Sex with Robots...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:56 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cosmology for Cats 3
Category: astro
We contemplate Eschatology and Anthropism...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 16, 2008
SubPrime U.
Category: academia
Faculty salaries, housing costs and trouble ahead
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:50 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cosmology for Cats 2.0
Category: astro
There are principles in cosmology...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 15, 2008
Matter
Category: random
Iain M. Banks "Matter" - a Culture Novel: Feb 2008 Orbit Books. h/t Brad...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 14, 2008
The President speaks
Category: astro
Therese at "Random Thoughts of an Astro Major" scores a short interview with AAS President Craig Wheeler...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cosmology for Cats 1
Category: astro
The universe is very big....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:59 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Make your own debate
Category: random
We could make our own science debate in the primaries right now.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:28 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 11, 2008
Why We Blog
Category: academia
Penn State Professor: "...an academic who blogs is contributing to the demise of Western culture"...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:36 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - spring '08
Category: random
Cold rainy friday, as winter returns. So, we ask the iPod - what is in store for us this spring semester? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:14 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 10, 2008
Carnival of Space #36
Category: astro
As the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society powers on in Texas, us homebodies bring you the 36th Carnival of Space, for your reading pleasure......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 9, 2008
Why Your Professor Would Like You To Apply To Penn State
Category: astro
Mars Gets Women, but he does not get the New Improved Process for Recommendation Letters for Students...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:31 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Griffin's speech to AAS
Category: astro
Text of Griffin's address to the AAS meeting Worth a read....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:15 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chad Speaks on $. You listen.
Category: science
Budget trouble. Extrapolation suggests Article I.6 next.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:21 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 8, 2008
AAS - first day summaries
Category: astro
Sounds like the usual bustle down in Austin at the annual American Astronomical Society meeting....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:13 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bragg Podcast Mania
Category: random
with bonus new album!
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
W00t Wegmans!
Category: science
Wegmans supermarkets withdraws all tobacco products from sale....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:42 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 7, 2008
Random AAS Press Releases Hot off the Presses
Category: astro
Therese at "Random Thoughts of an Astro Major is at AAS, and is the SPS reporter. She will pipe the hot new press release into the blogosphere as fast as she can get 'em....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Red Dust Rising
Category: astro
Presence of complex organics suggested by extreme colour of red disk around nearby star.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:19 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Modest Proposal to Fix Everything Wrong with US K-12 Education
Category: academia
I ponder how to fix US K-12 education in general, and science education in particular. An academic hurdle at the end of middle school is needed.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 8:44 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 4, 2008
G'Kar RIP
Category: random
Death of a blogger Sometimes we link for the sake of linking....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
a little pill for men
Category: science
"Why don't they make a birth control pill for men?" Is what the SciBlog superiors gots to know this week. Hah!...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:08 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - O Obama, Aw Hucks
Category: random
A thrilly, chilly friday across the mid-section; but a warm breeze is from the south and west is scooped up from a high straddling the south-east, to bring warmth to the northeast... So, we ask the Mighty iPod: the Iowa...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 2, 2008
Science Debate 2008: II Handicapping the Field
Category: random
Now that I have joined the call for ScienceDebate 2008, what do I think......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:34 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Science Debate 2008
Category: random
The US Presidential candidates ought to have a debate with a topic focus of Science and Technology...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
should I care?
Category: random
"Go Michigan!"...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
out with the old...
Category: random
Hrmph. My Terribly Useful Collection of Assorted and Divers Rubber Bands Of Various Sizes and Colours has completely disintegrated....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:22 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Wielding an Axe..."
Category: astro
"Four times they came for more money and four times we told them 'no,'"...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
