Senior Review
Category: astro
NASA astrophysics mission Senior Review (2008) is apparently out...
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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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May 16, 2008
NAS Assessment of NAI
Category: astro
The NAS Assessment of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, 2008, is out and available...
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iPod iChing - magna ras
Category: astro
Friday commences, and it rains. So, Oh Mighty iPod - what is the deal with Oklo's dark cryptic hints? A planet discovered, and where? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
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May 15, 2008
Joe Pa under weather
Category: random
Joe Pa not feeling well, reporters overexcited. Ambulance came to our street this morning, and now there are three reporters staking out the house and ambushing the neighbours. I know nuthin! Go away....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:23 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
wandering anagram stars
Category: astro
Greg Laughlin at Systemic has put out a teasing hint about a potential major extrasolar planet discovery....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:57 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Carnival of Space #54
Category: astro
It is caaaarnivaaaaal time! Carnival of Space #54 over on Altair VI...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:50 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
special comment
Category: random
I missed Keith Olbermann's Countdown last night due to travel. Youtube comes to the rescue - watch it for the golf....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 2008
iPod Classic Remakes
Category: random
what classic would you remake as an iPod ad...
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May 13, 2008
Young Ones
Category: random
Why wait till tomorrow...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:01 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Einstein on God
Category: random
A letter from Einstein to Eric Gutkind sent in 1954 is up for auction. It is rather blunt....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 9:54 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
galaxy crash
Category: astro
Hubble gallery of galaxy crashes, with added bonus simulations...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 8:02 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 12, 2008
sailors at sea
Category: random
more random naval ponderings...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:32 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
toys
Category: astro
NASA Ames is getting some new big iron...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:47 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
tidbits
Category: astro
CNN is surprised at how much astronomers make, and how few there are...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:32 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
the evolution of the To Do list
Category: random
In the beginning, a To Do list was not needed. Everything important To Do could be remembered......
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details of a PBD
Category: astro
NASA EOS has some startling images...
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May 11, 2008
are we kidding ourselves
Category: astro
Julianne gets an invitation...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 9, 2008
iPod iChing - oh canada
Category: random
Friday. Raining, again. So, Oh Mighty iPod - what is going on on the mystery Canadian Train in Ontario? Woosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
flu like illness on Canadian train
Category: science
Passenger train halted and quarantined in northern Ontario...
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teh science frame
Category: astro
Nima Arkani-Hamed front pages cnn.com...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:37 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
cut off their goolies
Category: academia
apropos nothing - what sort of circumstances hypothetically trigger university disciplinary investigations?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:17 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 8, 2008
Wingardium Leviosa Aragog
Category: astro
Now we know why Ron Weasley didn't like Astronomy...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:55 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 7, 2008
a grain of sand
Category: academia
Prof Brad DeLong dislodges an academic grain of sand, and formally requests academic action on the question Prof Yoo. The immediate response is repose. We will see if the talus slope is ever exceeded. Inertia works both ways, even at...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:21 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chaiten Volcano Chile
Category: science
The Chaiten Volcano in Chile is erupting, first time in at least 2000 years, more likely the last eruption was about 10,000 years ago. The eruption is intensifying and local towns are being evacuated...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 7:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 6, 2008
Nargis lingering legacy
Category: science
The news from Tropical Cyclone Nagris keep coming and getting worse...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
an ode to spring
Category: astro
...57 papers to grade on the pile on the desk 57 papers to grade on the pile on the desk take one off, grade it down 56 papers to grade on the pile on the desk......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:45 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 5, 2008
'fess up
Category: astro
All right. Which of you jokers edited wikipedia to say "Cosmic Magnetic Background"? It was funny the first time, but the nth time I read that for the CMB in ugrad essays it gets tiresome... just in time for...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:09 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
the three stages of proposal rejection
Category: astro
selected referee comments on "A bold proposal to do something new and interesting", years 1-3 with added bonus translation...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:39 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 4, 2008
lucky man
Category: astro
some time ago I made an off-cuff comment to a colleague that he "had been lucky". He reacted badly to this, and rather curtly told me he resented being told he had been lucky, he had worked for his...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:57 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 2, 2008
wot a day
Category: random
Boris is the new mayor of London?! I'm so sorry, me ol' mates....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
iPod iChing - school's out...
Category: random
Last friday! And, somewhere, it is snowing. So, we skip joyfully to the Mighty iPod, and ask, intrepidly: what interesting things are we in for this summer? Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 11:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 1, 2008
Carnival of Space: Special Anniversary Edition
Category: astro
Carnival of Space #52 is up...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
