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Dynamics of Cats
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April 30, 2008
...but we like to!
Category: science
Chad he says: Scientists Don't Have To Do Everything Do as he says. This is another episode of linking: because linking is an inherent public good....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:19 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2008
stars like dust
Category: astro
Gorgeous Spitzer Space Telescope Image of Ω Centauri...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:52 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2008
a brief history of big physics
Category: astro
Physics used to be simple: the universe was eternal, static and predictable... but there were dark clouds on the horizon....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:08 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What the World Needs Now...
Category: astro
Is APOD for the iPod. Seriously. A neat little web accessible archive of the public subset of the APOD archive, continuosly updated, bundled for a quick iPod upload. With an index, please....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:39 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2008
whence nuclear Iran?
Category: random
After the revelations about Syria's plausible secret nuclear project, destroyed by an Israeli air raid, speculation is turning back to Iran...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:09 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2008
carrier reinforcement
Category: random
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is being reinforced. That is not good....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:19 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - seasonal modulation
Category: random
Friday, at last, and just one more week to go. So... lets be scientific today and ask the Mighty Inscrutable iPod One: have seasonal modulation of WIMPy Cold Dark Matter really been detected, as reported? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
string theology
Category: astro
I was discussing the "Landscape" in string theory, as it relates to modern cosmology in class, and the students first reaction was: "what is all the fuss about"? It seemed a bit mystifying to them that the community was having...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:18 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bombed Box on the Euphrates
Category: science
Boxes, Plutonium and Bombs Now with pictures
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:32 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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