Rob Knop's Blog -- ramblings and rants about astronomy, cosmology, science education, general nerdism, and anything else.
Rob Knop earned a PhD in Physics from Caltech in 1997, and did a 5-year post-doc with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and contributed to the discovery of the accelerating Universe. He was an assistant professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt for 6 years before scattering out of academia. He now works for Linden Lab, the producers of Second LIfe. (Note: this is not an official site of Linden Lab! Although I work for Linden Lab, all content in this blog is posted without the review or approval of Linden Lab. All statements and opinions expressed here are my own.)
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September 29, 2007
Category: Computers & Society
There are days when I want to stand on the rooftops and scream like Zuska. I'm no longer in academia, but as those who are longtime readers of my blog know, I became painfully aware of how sexist the culture...
Posted by Rob Knop at 12:02 PM • 27 Comments •
September 28, 2007
Category: Science & Culture
If you listened to Science Friday on NPR's Talk of the Nation today, you may have heard Ira Flatow mention a question from "Prospero Linden"— that was me. I was there, live, along with a 30 or 40 other people...
Posted by Rob Knop at 6:05 PM • •
September 27, 2007
Category: Big Bang & Cosmology
Every so often you will come across somebody who has a "killer" list of "problems" with the Big Bang. While there remain unknowns and questions about the Big Bang— just as there do with biological evolution— the basic picture of...
Posted by Rob Knop at 11:34 PM • 8 Comments •
September 8, 2007
Category: Big Bang & Cosmology
Hello from England! Last night was the award ceremony for the 2007 Gruber Prizer in Cosmology. It was good to meet up with the members of the SCP again, many of whom I haven't seen in several years. Picture below...
Posted by Rob Knop at 10:50 AM • 2 Comments •
September 5, 2007
Category: About the Blog
I"m sorry the blog's been so quiet recently. With my new job, and my trip out to SF getting started at Linden these last two weeks, I've been quite busy! Things won't settle down until next week, as I'm off...
Posted by Rob Knop at 8:55 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Culture
I haven't read the study— it would take some digging to find, after all!— only the CNN Article, but the title sums up half of the results: "Men want hot women, study confirms." In a nutshell, the study found that...
Posted by Rob Knop at 7:40 AM • 12 Comments •
September 3, 2007
Category: Science & Culture
Read this book. First and formost for a book review: Storm World is a good read. You will not find yourself bogged down or forcing yourself to push through a book that's "good for you." You will keep reading because...
Posted by Rob Knop at 10:45 AM • •
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