our topic for today is to find the best paper on globulars published since the workshop started
sadly I'm only up to 2007 on astro-ph
My nomination of this paper failed to win the prize, due to the excessive integrity of the judge
PS: I WON!
WOO HOO!
Ok, it was the razzie.
But I like it.
The Munchkin, He Likes It!
we then somehow started discussing MOND and why measurements of accelerations in globular clusters all seem to give values of about 10-10...
bother
we then went on to discuss a Larson paper, no equations, no figures, lots of ideas
brilliant
seriously: no equations and no figures, in 13 pages.
You have no idea how hard that is to do.
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No, the morning discussion are held in one of the few rooms with no cameras or mikes; there is a reason we do that.
Need some uninhibited discussion - even with people quickly forgetting they are taped we still want to be able to discuss stuff in progress and new ideas without broadcasting them live.
The blogging of those is deliberately sparse rather than detailed - more to give people a flavour of what is going on and what has come up in discussion. Plus I can't type that fast.