Galactic Interactions
Rob Knop's Blog -- ramblings and rants about astronomy, cosmology, science education, general nerdism, and anything else.
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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.)
Recent Posts
- Starting a new blog
- "Foo!" to "Are we shortening the Universe's life by observing it?"
- UPDATE : memory hole *not* coming
- Note: warning of impending memory hole
- Blog going on indefinite hiatus
- Fine. The post is deleted already.
- Protecting celebreties? Or just more creeping censorship?
- Supernovae: the source of cosmic rays
- If you thought Physics was misogynistic, try open source software!
- NPR's Science Friday with a (Second) Live Studio Audience
Recent Comments
- Organic Chemistry on Protecting celebreties? Or just more creeping censorship?
- GJJ on "Foo!" to "Are we shortening the Universe's life by observing it?"
- Rupen Savoulian on "Foo!" to "Are we shortening the Universe's life by observing it?"
- Drugmonkey on UPDATE : memory hole *not* coming
- Chris' Wills on UPDATE : memory hole *not* coming
- Dustin on "Foo!" to "Are we shortening the Universe's life by observing it?"
- Blake Stacey on UPDATE : memory hole *not* coming
- Blake Stacey on "Foo!" to "Are we shortening the Universe's life by observing it?"
- Troy McConaghy on UPDATE : memory hole *not* coming
- Rob Knop on Blog going on indefinite hiatus
Archives
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- October 2007
- September 2007
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- February 2007
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Web Home: http://brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~rknop
E-mail: robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
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