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2011: Winner - Charm Quark - 3QuarksDaily Prize in Science.
2010: Best Blog by physics.org.
2010: People's choice award by physics.org!
June 28, 2010
Category: Dark Matter
The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what no body yet has thought about that which everyone sees. -Arthur Schopenhauer Most of you who've been reading Starts With A Bang...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 8:16 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2010
Category: Random Stuff
"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned." -James A. Baldwin Sometimes, good things happen. And sometimes, you...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 1:27 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2010
Category: Dark Matter
"The Universe is made mostly of dark matter and dark energy, and we don't know what either of them is." -Saul Perlmutter When I was starting out as a graduate student, one of the most exciting (and daunting) tasks facing...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 7:12 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2010
Category: Astronomy
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan. -Adelbert von Chamisso A few years ago, there was a rumor going around that the Earth's axis had shifted, and that...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 3:13 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 20, 2010
Category: Random Stuff
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. -Knute Rockne Of course, academics are (mostly) on summer vacation right now, so...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 1:46 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 18, 2010
Category: Astronomy
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." -Helen Keller If you've been paying attention, you heard that the Kepler mission, earlier this week,...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 10:29 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 17, 2010
Category: Astronomy
"We are all captives of the pictures in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists." -Walter Lippmann For a long time, humans have wondered about life on other worlds, and...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 8:03 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 16, 2010
Category: Astronomy
"If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him -- it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 11:53 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 13, 2010
Category: Random Stuff
"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life." -Oscar Wilde It isn't only the wonders of the Universe themselves that impress me. Oftentimes, just as spectacular are...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 1:29 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 12, 2010
Category: biology
"If we lived on a planet where nothing ever changed, there would be little to do. There would be nothing to figure out. There would be no impetus for science. And if we lived in an unpredictable world, where things...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 2:24 PM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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