Taxing the Hidden Economy
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Income tax for elves, and VAT on dwarfs.
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Dynamics of Cats
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November 20, 2009
November 19, 2009
lateral thinking on your toes
Category: science
Ethan at Starts With A Bang did a nice post the other day on an old chestnut - why you can't touch your toes if you're backed against a wall....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:33 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
proposal invariance
Category: astro
Hubble multicycle large proposals were due today... Julianne tests the conjecture of proposal number invariance under simple scaling. Looks to be annoyingly close to correct with about 40 proposals in by the deadline. I still think we need to...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2009
deCode deFunct
Category: science
deCode, the genetics startup that genotyped the entire population of Iceland and reconstructed the Book of Icelanders is going down...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 16, 2009
Kepler Live Pool
Category: astro
NASA's planet hunter mission ought to be announcing something at the American Astronomical Society in january, 2010. But what?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:06 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 13, 2009
Water on the Moon
Category: astro
Yup, the LCROSS crash did kick up some water. NASA shows proof....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:58 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
SN 0.Ia
Category: astro
Supernova found by plucky amateurs turns out to be of a new type predicted by theorists and a neological mallogos is formed.
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:10 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2009
Cash for Grades Scandal
Category: academia
Cash for Grades? In Middle School?...
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 3:59 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Great Observatories View of the Milky Way Centre
Category: astro
Awesome combined image from Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra, showing deep view of the centre of the Milky Way, in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 12:09 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
11/11
Category: random
Checking. Nope, still haven't learned. Much....
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson at 10:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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