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don´t mind me, just gearing up for the AAS

hey: who is going to the AAS?

if you do go, first read Julianne's advice on how to give a 5 minute talk
- the correct answer, generally, is "don't" - I'm definitely in the "provide asynchronous communication paths and put up a poster" group

I completely ignored l'affaire Gaskell, mostly because I don't want to get dragged into some issues right now
At scienceblogs Dean's Corner is trying to start a dialog
while the redoubtable PZ's take is predictable and strident
Mike Brotherton also ponders the issue (do trace back to the entire series of discussions)
Andy provides the Euro perspective - read the comments

JWST continues to sink - is it being set up as a token big item cut for Congress? As opposed to $500M for Shuttle derived boosters for a cancelled launcher, which is being thrown out because NASA is under a continuing resolution...
read Andy's take over at the e-Astronomer
Personally I think O'Keefe cursed it when he named it.

partial privatization - the future is almost here

look:


still a bit short on sunspots
blah, blah, magnetic fields, blah, blah, rotation, blah, blah turbulence...

Ooops, almost forgot:
Occupations of the super-rich" - top 1% and 0.1%
Impressive that the "Professors and Scientists" categories hangs in there at all...