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Christmas Style
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on December 11, 2012 Hey, Santa Baby! Psy does it Christmas Style for Obama wrapped up with Hark the Herald Angels sing with Diana Ross and Psy. video at Grauniad Power hath privilege indeed.
Linkedy Links IX
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on December 6, 2012 On the purity of science careers; the waste of civilization and other assorted snippets… and a happy Feast of St Nikolaus The Rise of the Science Politician – Matt B. continues provocative Conversations. There is an interesting thread on this on The Astronomers fb. On The Inevitability of Kardashev Civilizations – the Astro Wright continues…
Linkedy Links VIII
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on November 27, 2012 MINERVA – clever idea for high cadence RV searches around nearby bright stars, now under way. Kardashev IV – from AstroWright. Or, why the best way to achieve immortality is to not die. how to make your bike sound like a horse – Brilliant! #ObMontyPython! From From Trotify. Physicists open mouth – PZ inserts booted…
On Student Morale and the Ritual Humiliation of Astronomy Faculty
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on November 16, 2012 In which we dunk and pie our professors… Much has been written about student morale and the problems of student-faculty relations and the implicit expectations faculty have of the students. Over the last couple of weeks I have had occasion to test some of the more radical proposals to improve the interactions of our students…
Astrobiology Chair
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on November 16, 2012 Visiting Astrobiology Chair in DC: research and engagement. Applications and nominations are open for the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology. “Established in the Fall of 2011, the Blumberg Astrobiology Chair is a distinguished senior position at the Library’s Kluge Center. The incumbent conducts research at the intersection between the science of…
Continuing Conversation
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on November 13, 2012 Blows against supersymmetry and facebook. Matthew Bailes continues ruminations at the Conversation – the general riff is on crowd sourcing and distributed computing, with a bit of bragging on The Beast they got down under. Ok, I’m, just jealous. I had not heard of Diaspora – be interesting to see if it can crowd out…
113 Waahmobile
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on November 2, 2012 113 Vælubíllinn The all time classic modern Icelandic punk anthem, for kids. Instant punk dance lesson just to complete the experience. Try it. It works.
CyberScience Cluster Hire
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on November 1, 2012 New faculty positions in multiple science and engineering disciplines, including astronomy, emphasizing computational analysis and data mining. Penn State is embarking on a transformative cluster hiring initiative in cyberscience – computation- and data-enabled science and engineering – to lead through cyber-enabled innovation in interdisciplinary research. This cross-college endeavor will coordinate multiple faculty appointments to develop…
Holy Schrödinger’s Cat!
Posted by Steinn Sigurðsson on October 31, 2012 Schrödinger’s Qu’ran – a 2012 thought experiment – in The Conversation, Matthew Bailes updates a classic paradox… “…a physicist could extend this thought experiment to write a php script that would randomly download one of the Bible, Qur’an or even a classical quantum mechanics textbook to the iPad…” On the Dispositive Null in the Literature…