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February 29, 2008
Category: random
It is friday, yet it is not snowing, yet. So, we skip to the Mighty iPod and ask, most sincerely: Oh, Mighty iPod One, is it the case that the high redshift IMF was significantly influenced by CMB flooring and...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:43 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2008
Category: random
a physicist, an engineer and a lawyer were chatting at a social event, when the Big Question came up...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:21 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
remind me, don't the redshirts always die first?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:22 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: academia
Where are the faculty bloggers? asks RPM over at evolgen...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2008
Category: academia
The Female Science Professor turns over the rocks and brings the real clash of cultures into the bright light of reason......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:41 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
It is snowy friday, again! Yay! So we skip to the Mighty iPod and ask: do you answer? Woosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2008
Category: academia
we really just spend all our time cleaning up paperwork and shutting down youthful extravaganzas...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:31 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: science
brilliant...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:17 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2008
Category: random
US Navy is claiming successful shootdown of USA 193...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:49 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
ok, this is weird... in beer prices, cost of living in Boston and State College is comparable...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:08 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
how many six packs of Sam Adams to buy a median house in Boston?
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:42 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
Amazon has a new electronic bookreader out - the Kindle - it now includes a select blog feed, I gather...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:22 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
PSU Collegian article on Valerie Plame's visit to PSU; also CDT local news item; of course blogs got it first......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:08 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
possible meteor impact in northwest US...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 18, 2008
Category: astro
I give I lose I was wrong and I will pay...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:54 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 16, 2008
Category: random
Valerie Wilson, née Plame, Penn State alumnae and outed CIA undercover agent just visited...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:38 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
meeting is over, what did we learn...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:21 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
Crisp clear snowy friday. It is still friday in my current time zone. Just. So, we approach the mighty iPod, and we ask: did reionization come early? Woosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Will Harvard junior faculty publish first author Nature papers now?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 15, 2008
Category: astro
a black hole conspiracy...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:45 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 14, 2008
Category: astro
extremely high redshift galaxies found...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 6:20 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
The US government is shutting down EconomicIndicators.gov effective March 1st...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:14 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
The first two billion years of galaxy formation: the reionization epoch and beyond....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:28 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 8, 2008
Category: random
snow, we didn't order snow on a friday, did we? Ok, friday, in a rush... we ask the iPod - anything else interesting going to break this week? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:48 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 6, 2008
Category: random
another break in an undersea optical fiber cable in the Middle East has reportedly taken place - a rebreak of a cable being rapidly repaired
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:09 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
just the other week me and the Better Half were chatting about the weather, as one does...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 5, 2008
Category: random
Don't Try This at Home...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 4, 2008
Category: random
regurgitating yur data...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:06 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: random
Fame! At last! World of Physics is mine, all mine....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:29 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Do you want to be an Astrobiologist? Are you an undergrad in the US and you think you might want to, but you have no idea what you would be in for?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 2, 2008
Category: random
threefour major undersea cables cut in two separate incidents internet traffic to Middle East affected...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:58 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 1, 2008
Category: random
Ice storm! Who ordered a f&2#&ing ice storm for friday... So, we stagger through the crunchy pellets to the bode of the Mighty iPod, and ask: how 'bout the voids, should we keep looking in the voids? Whoosh goes the...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
Something terrible lurks at the heart of every galaxy...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:25 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: astro
The domestic cat has a range of up to 10 km per day...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:02 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
