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FameLab
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on December 21, 2011 Interpretative Dance of Astrobiology
JWST muddling along
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on November 16, 2011 Congress is moving on 2012 appropriations, and the Science agency “minibus” bill has reported out of conference…
Mandated Reporting: The Evil That Men Do
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on November 10, 2011 Imagine, hypothetically, that a junior co-worker comes to you, distraught, to tell you they witnessed a horrendously evil act by a senior colleague.
“A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.”
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on October 19, 2011 The following is brutal, do not watch if sensitive
NESC: evolution blog travel award
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on October 13, 2011 NESCent is offering a travel award for the best blog post on current or emerging evolutionary research. Award is $750 for travel support to attend ScienceOnline2012 There will be 2 winners, chosen by 15th Dec 2011 Blog entries must mention NESCent contest, and are nominated or self-nominated by emailing travel.award@nescent.org like this – but for…
NESC: The Big Questions of Synthetic, Evolutionary and Astrobiology
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on October 11, 2011 Our big questions, at least. And the winners are…
ExSSII: Extreme Solar Systems Direct Imaging
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on September 13, 2011 And we’re off again with session 4 and direct imaging of exoplanets I think we had about 100 total new exoplanets announced yesterday: 55 from CORALIE/HARPS, 23 from WASP, 12 from Kepler, 10 from PSU-Torun and assorted others.
Flurry of Physics
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on June 17, 2011 I’m at wee bit behind on this here blogging thingie, but there has been a flurry of physics results which are worth a quick peek:
How to Teach Physics Real Good
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on June 7, 2011 There has been a lot of effort to try to figure out how to teach physics better, at the university level, in the US. Of course, we know perfectly well how to do that.
ESA starts LISA plans
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on June 6, 2011 So LISA is moving ahead with a possible all European mission to look for low frequency gravitational radiation