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Category: academia
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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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March 31, 2008
Category: academia
The essence of a good prank is to know when to stop...
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March 30, 2008
Category: random
The Chaos Computer Club, in an inspired hack to draw attention to some of the idiocies of biometric IDs, lifted the fingerprint of the German Interior Minister...
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Category: random
Obama giving a stump speech on the lawn just down from my office. Good turnout, good weather, good speech. Had to bail before the end, very intense crowd - Sen Casey, the PSU quarterback and Jay and Sue Paterno...
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March 28, 2008
Category: random
Did I mention that our undergraduate students are really awesome!...
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Category: random
Rainy friday. Wot? No Snow? Must be spring already. So we bounce over to the Mighty iPod and ask, most chirpily: WTF was going on down at HQ? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
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March 27, 2008
Category: astro
space.com interview with Weiler...
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March 26, 2008
Category: astro
Quintessence - Obama Cosmological Constant - Clinton We don't need no steenkin' dark energy - McCain Discuss....
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Category: random
helpdesk 1.4.4.0...
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Category: astro
Stern out as SMD head. Weiler in....
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March 25, 2008
Category: random
it has been yonks since I randomly rambled about middle eastern muddles, so why not now......
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Category: random
hm, so there is this country, facing a declining currency, rising inflation, turmoil in the stock market with large fluctuations in key indices on short terms, real estate market bubble that looks like it might be popping, and concern that...
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March 24, 2008
Category: random
would the person who left the flowery hula skirt in my office this weekend please come and collect it... an explanation for how it got there would also be useful....
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March 23, 2008
Category: random
Happy Holidays! May his Noodly Appendages tickle you on this most festive of days....
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March 21, 2008
Category: random
Curious coincidences in the Obama passport scandal...
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Category: random
Sunny happy friday, and the hordes have descended upon us. So, oh Mighty iPod... modulo the vagaries of the fickle humans, we ask: will they come? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
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March 20, 2008
Category: academia
I promised this to a colleague, after I made an unnecessarily cryptic reference to a potential solution to an academic issue that frequently comes up...
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Category: random
happy vernal equinox!...
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Category: science
NOAA provides a River Watch web site - it includes tentative estimates for future precipitation forecast in its estimates, so the long range forecast is uncertain...
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Category: astro
Dark Matter is a movie. It is about a brilliant young physics grad student, life at university, and the interaction between a student, his advisor and the academic hierarchy. Should we be "concerned"?...
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March 19, 2008
Category: random
that Iran said, that Israel said, that Cheney said to Oman that the US might attack Iran......
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March 18, 2008
Category: astro
Arthur C. Clarke, engineer, author and visionary has died. He was good. Another one gone....
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Category: astro
Science Education and Society has a blog meme: name five women scientists in your field, not at your institution...
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Category: random
Following the market? Intrigued by the collapse of investment banks?...
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Category: astro
the students look younger every year...
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March 16, 2008
Category: random
it is no longer friday, but we blame the weather, and cheerfully ask the mighty iPod one: will the bears come out to play on monday? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
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March 13, 2008
Category: astro
I've lost count, but there is a new Carnival of Space over at Missy's place...
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March 12, 2008
Category: astro
some days I am really glad I am a theorist
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March 11, 2008
Category: random
Admiral Fallon, head of US Central Command - ie Iraq and Afghanistan has resigned. Why?...
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March 9, 2008
Category: random
PZ is a year older, but still frisky...
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March 7, 2008
Category: astro
DM found...
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Category: astro
we did it, astronomy has reached carrying capacity...
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Category: astro
climate catastrophe, turbidity and academic angst on campus...
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Category: astro
It is friday, but it is not snowing, here, yet. So, we skip to the mighty iPod and we ask: modulo the vagaries of fickle panelists, how will our Hubble Proposals, cycle 17, fare? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
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March 6, 2008
Category: astro
Did you know the universe is 13,690 million years old, this week, plus or minus 1%.
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Category: astro
Hubble proposal deadline tomorrow, lest you forget. How many proposals do you think we will get? I think I know. You wanna bet?...
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March 5, 2008
Category: random
Press rumour that Bush may fire Admiral Fallon, head of Central Command specifically the rumour is that Adm Fallon may be relieved of command by this summer, 9-12 months before normal rotation would be considered, and that this is...
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March 4, 2008
Category: astro
UK astro staggers back to life......
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March 3, 2008
Category: astro
Name that telescope...
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Category: astro
must.not.blog...
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March 1, 2008
Category: science
ricin poisons man in Vegas which book did the recipe come from
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