swimming north
Category: random
just saw a lone whale outside my window headed north...
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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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April 30, 2009
vorkvöld í Reykjavík
Category: Iceland
nostalgia trip...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
linkedy links ix
Category: random
yet more flu university politics and whatever else I tripped over on the net...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:14 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
mild flu
Category: random
it is not just about lots of people dying...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 1:06 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2009
WHO: stage 5 pandemic
Category: science
World Health Organization raised the influenza pandemic alert to level 5....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 5:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
the probable cost of swine flu
Category: random
so what would a mild swine flu pandemic cost? we get out the envelope... best case is about 1% hit to GDP this year...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2009
two dead in LA, possibly from swine flu
Category: random
lanow blog reporting two deaths over the weekend from pneumonia or 'flu like illness. possibly from swine flu or not. 33 yr male from Long Beach died monday - pneumonia over pre-existing lymphoma 45 yr male from La Mirada...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:50 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chemistry Songs
Category: science
Chemistry songs....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:11 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
KITP: Complete Control
Category: science
The Quantum Control of Light and Matter program is underway here at KITP and I'm sitting in on some of the talks. with Keto-Eno-Tautomerie-Blues! Auf Deutsch......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:56 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
GRB: redshift 8.2
Category: astro
Most distant gamma ray burst yet found by Swift. GRB 090423 at z=8.2...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:11 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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