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February 8, 2010

Presidential Question Time

Category: politics


There was a truly weird advert or contributed op-ed on the radio a couple of days ago.

Some conservative anti-tax guy, and a left-wing editor had joined in calling for a US "Question Time", a la the UK "Question Time" in Parliament.
ie the President doing questions and answers with Congress, formally.

Inspired, in part, I suspect, by Obama's performance against the congressional republicans in a question and answer session, though conservative dude brought out the old teleprompter canard against Obama in explaining why he thought it was a good idea.

February 7, 2010

acts of gods

Category: random

Why do the gods keep interfering in football championships?
And which gods?

I'd think Loki, by default.
But Manning's throw away really smells of Óðinn - he always had a macabre sense of humour about bringing down established fighters through mischance or misjudgement.

'cause, y'know, when football players invoke the gods in their victory, you really have to think first about "which god?"

Y rant on Mann hunt

Category: academiapolitics


The Yorkshire Ranter analyses the Climate Research Unity coverage in your friendly neighbourhood grauniad.

Robert P. points us to an analysis of the crack itself - kinda blah. Basically trawling through a misconfigured server by a script kiddie.

February 5, 2010

Agent Fresco

Category: Icelandrandom

Newish super trendy band out of Iceland.

Jazzy math music with touch of heavy rock.
Or so I was told.

February 4, 2010

Climate Research Unit Cracking - play the ball

Category: academiapoliticsscience


Penn State has released the preliminary conclusions of its inquiry into the purloined e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.

February 3, 2010

grad admissions - what are y'all doing?

Category: astro


Ok, peeps, time to 'fess up - pseudonymously

what are people doing with grad admissions?

I'm hearing contradictory stories: some places claim to be doing normal admissions, but some of those same places have also lost TA slots, I hear; I know some places are cutting admissions, by factors of 2 or more - you know who you are, lets hear it; I also hear of at least a couple of places who are sticking their neck out and increasing admissions - true?

The pool of applicants is larger than in recent years, and look strong, it will be an interesting year.

February 1, 2010

linkedy links xxii

Category: random


been a while since l looked to see what is out there, but here is a smattering of recent blog stuff that caught my attention

NASA: pinin' for the fjords

Category: astropolitics


NASA 2011 budget is out, and with it the new 5 year plan.
It is drastic, bit more so than I expected.

Short version: Constellation is dead, Dead, DEAD!
Ares I, Ares V and Orion are shut down. ~ $10 billion thrown away, again, with nothing to show for it, again.

More money,

January 28, 2010

Geoff Burbidge RIP

Category: astro


Another loss to cosmology, as Geoff Burbidge dies at 84.

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