What Happens In The Zone?
Category: science
Have you ever been in the Zone? Where you are totally Focused and just cranking it out? I want to know what is going on in the Zone....
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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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September 30, 2009
September 29, 2009
linkedy links xviii
Category: random
quantum money and vanishing white dots and more
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2009
timberrrr
Category: random
there's something wrong, metaphorically, with this image......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 4:15 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Water, Water Everywhere
Category: astro
NASA sees water everywhere it looks! In surprising places. With pictures. But maybe not where you heard......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 2:31 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Peace feels like...?
Category: random
Peace feels like "the kiss you get from your Mom before you get on the bus for school!" Diddi (via Ms Hurtz) It is that old "warrior poet" tradition... Apparently it is a good way to get lots of...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Banking in a Banana Republic
Category: Iceland
Explaining the post-deregulation investment banks of Iceland. Or, how to make money off banana trees north of the arctic circle......
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 23, 2009
Fast, Foamy and Furious
Category: random
why the final BCS rankings may depend on random timing of the 'flu peaking, and why I may not blog much next week or two...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2009
Academia, a test case for banking sector.
Category: politics
So, having established that Obama is NOT truly beholden to the financiers, what may happen to settle the financial world and straighten the economy....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:34 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Obama: can't buy that.
Category: politics
It is often noted on the Intertoobz that President Obama has a number of financial institutions in the top 20 list of "institutions whose invididual members donated to Obama's campaign". So, the bankers bought Obama?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:17 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 18, 2009
Stars tip over, Relativity left standing
Category: astro
In case you missed it: GR puzzle of mystery binary DI Her is solved.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:48 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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