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Just a reminder: this coming weekend (August 13 – 15) is SETICon, a convention where science and science fiction meet. You can read all about it in my posts where I announced I’d be there, and a followup. It’s still only $35 for the whole weekend, though there are options...
Just a reminder: this coming weekend (August 13 – 15) is SETICon, a convention where science and science fiction meet. You can read all about it in my posts where I announced I’d be there, and a followup. It’s still only $35 for the whole weekend, though there are options...
My friend, the geek-chanteuse Marian Call, is touring the United States, playing smaller venues in all the Lower 48 (and Hawaii!). I heard her sing in Boulder where she was incredible as always, and also at w00tstock, where a whole passel of folks were enthralled. If you need a sample...
My friend, the geek-chanteuse Marian Call, is touring the United States, playing smaller venues in all the Lower 48 (and Hawaii!). I heard her sing in Boulder where she was incredible as always, and also at w00tstock, where a whole passel of folks were enthralled. If you need a sample...
Happy birthday to two important people
Today happens to be the birthday of two people who are important to me: James Randi, and my sister Marci*. If you don’t know Randi, that’s OK: you can get some good info on him in this interview he did with Big Think, or this talk he gave at TED, or...
Happy birthday to two important people
Today happens to be the birthday of two people who are important to me: James Randi, and my sister Marci*. If you don’t know Randi, that’s OK: you can get some good info on him in this interview he did with Big Think, or this talk he gave at TED, or...
It’s Caturday! And this time, I actually have a picture of my cat. I was trying to relax and watch Craig Ferguson, and she decided between my legs was the best spot in the whole house to be. And look how lady-like she is: I need to stop her before that fourth...
It’s Caturday! And this time, I actually have a picture of my cat. I was trying to relax and watch Craig Ferguson, and she decided between my legs was the best spot in the whole house to be. And look how lady-like she is: I need to stop her before that fourth...
Planet triangle graces the western twilit sky
If you look west after sunset, you’ll probably spot the fourth brightest object in the sky*: Venus. But as I looked west recently, I noticed two bright(ish) objects just above it. It didn’t take me long to figure out that they were the planets Saturn and Mars. Both looked red due...
Planet triangle graces the western twilit sky
If you look west after sunset, you’ll probably spot the fourth brightest object in the sky*: Venus. But as I looked west recently, I noticed two bright(ish) objects just above it. It didn’t take me long to figure out that they were the planets Saturn and Mars. Both looked red due...
These are the drums the world will end
You know what’s cool? This: I love this song. And yeah, that’s me doing the voiceover for it. You should buy Geo’s album "Trebuchet", too. It has that song and lots of other cool ones, too....
These are the drums the world will end
You know what’s cool? This: I love this song. And yeah, that’s me doing the voiceover for it. You should buy Geo’s album "Trebuchet", too. It has that song and lots of other cool ones, too....
sci.astro Google Group
Re: Proposed experiment for detection of absolute motion
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Re: Proposed experiment for detection of absolute motion
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Re: FORBIDDEN LOGIC IN EINSTEINIANA
PREMISE: By increasing the perimeter of a rotating disc while keeping the linear speed of the periphery constant, one converts clocks fixed on the periphery into VIRTUALLY INERTIAL clocks (the "gravitational field" they experience is reduced to zero). CONCLUSION: In accordance with Einstein's 1905 light postulate,...
For the past several days I have been playing around with translating atomic characteristics into that of what would be cosmic characteristics if an Atom Totality were true and the Big Bang as false. For instance, the most spectacular translation is the Nucleus with mass. In...
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Notice in that picture above that the superclusters of Centaurus to Virgo to Perseus Pisces forming somewhat of a straight-line-band lying in the galactic plane. But notice how the North Pole represented by Hercules supercluster lies equally upwards of the galactic plane as the...
StarDate
Counting Clouds - StarDate: August 9
Counting up stellar nurseries. (Note: Audio will be available tomorrow.) ...
Twin Crowns - StarDate: August 8
Crowning the night sky. ...
Vulpecula - StarDate: August 7
A dead star and an almost-dead star. ...
Heavy Lifting - Featured Image: August 7
Wisps of gas from a dying star form the Dumbbell Nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, the fox. ...
Evening Planets - StarDate: August 6
A deceptive evening conjunction. ...
Jumping Through Hoops - Featured Image: August 5
An artist's concept shows bubbles of hot gas racing into space from the exploded star known as Supernova 1987A. ...
Astrophotography / Astronomy Cameras Blog
Arthur Coombs is an astrophotography enthusiast based in South Victoria, Australia. He uses a DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera for his job. The following Moon photos were taken between July 19 and July 21, 2010, and sent to us by the end of that month. Please find attached a set of...
The following Jupiter photo and animation are submitted by Piotr Maliński. He managed to capture this sharp view on the night of 10th of July. In the picture we can see Jupiter’s two satellites, Callisto (brown) and Io (red). Last night (very warm, but not humid) I had very good...
Jim Militello is an amateur astronomer based in Tucson, AZ, USA. He captured a nice view of Jupiter and its Io on 13.July with a DBK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera. Quote of his mail: I wanted to share an image of Jupiter w/ Io that I captured with the DBK 21AU04.AS...
Dr. Stephen Chadwick works for the Massey University, New Zealand. He recently received a contract to author a book called “Imaging the Southern Skies”, which will be published by Springer. The book will consist of a yearly guide to image astronomical targets using amateur telescopes and CCD cameras in the...
This photo was submitted by Etienne Lecoq. Here is his email (originally in French): This is my latest image of the AR 11087 region on the Sun. It presented us a beautiful filament these days! Always faithful DMK 41AU02.AS and its large sensor. I used for the first time Avistack...
We are delighted to announce the recent winner of Astronomy Camera Competition – Ian Lanchbury. Congratulations! Ian comes from England. He participated this lottery in May and became the winner after it closed on 1st of July. The prize camera DMK 21AU04.AS has been shipped to Ian earlier this month....
A Pacific View
Sometime we're so busy at sunset there's little time to take good sunset photographs. You just pop outside, take a couple of hand-held shots and head back inside to deal with whatever's going on. I took this on one of those occasions and it wasn't helped by some high winds....
Eddie got the limelight yesterday so it's Bubbles' turn with her James Bond stare. She's old as well, about 9-months younger than Eddie, and thinks Eddie is her mum (she isn't). Bubbles and Eddie have an odd relationship. Bubbles will follow Eddie everywhere and Eddie doesn't like that but puts...
Eddie: an old and stoned companion
After five minutes of frenetic activity with the catnip-filled toys, Eddie takes a rest. She's been with me from almost the first day I moved to Hawai`i 14 years ago and is (usually) still as active as she was when a kitten and certainly as cheeky. She just doesn't take...
There are several reasons why Mauna Kea is one of the very best astronomical observing sites on the planet. One of them is the inversion layer which is caused by cool air above the summit sinking and preventing the warmer air nearer the surface from rising higher than a few...
Not much to say this evening, it's work all day and night at the moment and I've certainly had a few curve balls thrown my way. If I still lived in England I would have said "googlies sent my way" but no-one in the US would know what I was...
I received two emails from Hawai`i Island Civil Defense this evening. The first said this:"Highway 11 is closed in both directions at the 87 Mile Marker due to a traffic accident."The second one, about 2 hours later, said everything was clear:"Highway 190 is now open in both directions"As much as...
Universe Today
David Waters sits in the hot seat for 'This Week in Space,' which highlights the troubles with the cooling system on the International Space Station and the likelihood of a third space walk being added this week to complete the repairs. The NASA budget makes slow progress through Congress, Commerce...
In just a few days – during the evening hours of August 12 and morning of August 13 – one of the year's most reliable meteor showers is about to grace this year's dark skies. Not only will we be in for some celestial fireworks, but the planets are going...
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Strange Stars
Atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. If you cram them together and heat them up you get plasma where the electrons are only loosely associated with individual nuclei and you get a dynamic, light-emitting mix of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. If you cram that matter...
Space Telescopes Team Up to Capture Spectacular Galactic Collision
From JPL: A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope...
There's Water On the Moon's Surface, But Interior Could Be Dry
With all the recent news of water on the Moon, a new paper published today in the journal Science may offer a surprise – or it may bring us back to previous assumptions about the Moon. A new analysis of eleven lunar samples from the Apollo missions by Zachary Sharp...
If you weren't lucky enough to be in the right place or the right time to see any of the aurorae produced by the Sun's recent spate of activity, skywatchers around the world have started posting videos online of some really spectacular Northern Lights. Above, is the view on August...
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Picture of the Month - July 2010
This is one of the most beautiful pictures taken by International Space Station (ISS). While orbiting around the Earth in July 2006, the astronauts captured the Moon floating near the horizon and the Earth covered by a thick blanket of clouds. You can notice that a part of the moon...
Picture of the Month - June 2010
The above image is a stunning false-colour picture of 'Cat's Eye Nebula' with a halo around it. The center white portion of the image is the Cat's Eye Nebula surrounded by a faint halo of gaseous material. Cat's Eye is one of the most famous Planetary Nebula which is believed to be...
Well, throughout April you would have heard a lot of news about the cryogenic technology that ISRO used in the recent rocket that was launched and that it failed. Before explaining what the cryogenic technology is, let me explain about orbits.There are several types of orbit for a satellite around...
Picture of the Month - May 2010
This most amazing picture is a combination of 8 images taken at Portsmouth, UK at 7:50 pm between April 4th to April 15th, 2010. This composite image shows the trail of Venus and Mercury with a beautiful backdrop. Venus (extreme left) was continuing to move away from the Sun during...
Picture of the Month - April 2010
Another Startrail image taken along with the view of Annapurna ranges, Himalayas. This trail was taken during the entire day showing the complete Earth's rotation. Using this trail, the celestic North Pole can be identified, the center of the concentric trails. Also Polaris, the north star can be identified which...
Picture of the Month - March 2010
This is one breath taking photo taken from the ISS. The picture taken from the window shows the solar panel of the ISS along with the crescent Earth and the beautiful and bright Sun. One of the most beautiful images I have seen....
Tom's Astronomy Blog
Last Chance Riddle – Because I Was Discombobulated Last Week
UPDATE: SOLVED by Phil at 3:46 pm Just for you, since I was out of commission last week, I’m running an extra riddle. Sorry you didn’t have as much notice as I might have liked to give, but I couldn’t make up my tiny mind about running this. “Discombobulated” is...
By request, I will run one last riddle chance today at 3pm, CDT. This will be your last chance to get your name on the list....
Last Chance Before The Bonus Riddle
UPDATE: SOLVED at 12:12 CDT by Bert Are you ready to be frustrated today? Of course you are! This is your last chance before the next bonus riddle, which is Monday the 9th. I know you’re ready, so I’ll jump right into it. You’re looking for a thing: This thing...
The Antennae from the Great Observatories
Here’s a Chandra release of the Antennae Galaxies. The compilation of the colliding galaxies is a collaborative effort by Chandra, Hubble and the Spitzer Space telescopes. I’ve included the press release below, but there is also a video on the Chandra site and you can access more and larger images...
NASA’s MODIS website captures some intriguing images of the Earth; this one is one of my recent favorites from the TERRA satellite. The caption from the MODIS website (you can get different sizes of this image), explore it too they have lots of good stuff: Creating a striking design which...
I’ve been seeing reports of the Earth-like planets found by Kepler and perhaps you have too. The following press release was issued form the Ames Research Center: The following NASA statement was sent to Dr. S. Pete Worden, Director, NASA Ames Research Center from the Kepler Science Council on Aug....
The Urban Astronomer
The evening sky brings us a trio of planets in a close grouping this week. The bright beacon of light, Venus, shines brightly and moves quickly from night to night, especially by comparison to the slower-moving Mars and Saturn. The image shows the view on Sunday August 8th, so looking...
I was in San Francisco this morning recording another podcast for the KFOG Morning Show Podcast Series. Morning Show Producer Irish Greg and I had a very spirited and lively conversation about planets, the Solar System, Star Parties, Iridium Flares, Dark Energy and Dark Matter. In a fast-paced 9-minute conversation...
A Must See: Four Planets and the Moon
This week the sky features four of the brightest planets in a beautiful lineup in the sunset sky. The illustration on the left, borrowed from Sky & Telescope Magazine, demonstrates how the planets all align themselves in a path across the sky known as the Ecliptic. This line in the...
One of the most dramatic spectacles of nature takes place Sunday July 11th, as the New Moon passes in front of the Sun and creates a Total Solar Eclipse over the South Pacific Ocean. This eclipse will be especially unique for those who travel to Easter Island to see it....
The evening sky over the next few weeks offers a study in the changes that take place in the sky along the path of the Moon and the path of the planets. This is exciting to watch and helps to unveil some of the intricacies of the Solar System, something...
The Path That Leads to the Earth's Shadow
We are in an "Eclipse Season," a five week period of time when the Moon's orbit around the Earth is aligned in a way that the Full or New Moon crosses the path of the Earth around the Sun. When that happens, we experience a Lunar or Solar Eclipse and...
Astronomy Today
With the very real possibility of new minor planets being discovered within our solar system, it’s only prudent to have some names ready to call them. So three lucky children who won the Naming X competition may follow in the footsteps of the 11-year old Venetia Burnee who first suggested...
The Ariane 5 successfully completed launch number 50 from French Guiana yesterday. We profiled the Ariane 5 a while back and expected big things from ESA’s flagship rocket. Despite an ill-fated first launch, it has played a large role in space exploration. Although mainly used for placing telecommunications satellites into...
Shuttle Discovery will return home on Monday. It will take a different route than usual and will fly across the USA. If you would like to see if you are in the line to see and/or hear Discovery as it heads for landing, you now can. More information can be...
On April 10, two of the original members of the Apollo 13 crew will be at Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex. During Astronaut Encounter, Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise will tell stories about their Apollo 13 experiences. Some of the stories include tales of the explosion that occurred en...
International Space Station will have companion vessels this month. Russian Soyuz and USA Shuttle vessels will be visible in the sky along with ISS. You can find out when these, as well as other satellites, are visible from your area by going to NASA’s Human Space Flight site or SpaceWeather’s...
The next few evenings, during the twilight magic, you can see the two interior planets appearing just about 3 degrees apart, above the western horizon. Look just after sunset to find the brighter of the two, Venus. Look closer to the horizon and just a bit to the north (right,...
ASTRONOMY IN LIPAN (LASS)
PERSEIDS METEOR SHOWER CLARIFICATION
One of the LASS club members called my hand on the best time to observe the Perseids meteor shower so I thought a little or at least an intelligent discussion might be in order. So here we go:Not all observers will agree on my terminology but for my...
I found this little bit of information in a government proposal (sometimes called legislation) outlining a lot of things for NASA to be doing in the upcoming months and years. Regardless of all the other things NASA will be directed to do, the disposition of the remaining shuttle...
NEW ASTRONOMY COURSE BEING OFFERED
Here at the LASS home base we are setting the wheels into motion to develop a new astronomy observers course. This course will offer both lecture type events as well as on site observing and will be taught on an unregulated schedule. This will be a "Pay for...
Several members of LASS are planning on traveling to the Ft Griffin Historical Site for a weekend observing session on July 9-10. If you are not familiar to the Ft G. area, they have made it a priority to attract astronomy observers and have greatly improved their facilities along...
This is what the moon looked like from my vantage point about half way thru the eclipse. The image is from a hand held Canon Rebel camera, 300mm lens, f250@5.6, ISO 400. I had gone out at 4:45 to get into position to view the pass of the ISS...
Partial Eclipse Early Saturday AM
The last moon eclipse visible to most of us was in Feb 2008 but that is about to change. Tomorrow morning (Saturday Jun 26th) you can see a partial eclipse beginning shortly after 4 AM. The moon will be setting in the west as the eclipse occurs but...
Science@NASA Headline News
Planets Align for the Perseid Meteor Shower
Mark your calendar: On Thursday, August 12th, an alignment of planets in the sunset sky will kick off the finest meteor shower of 2010, the Perseids....
Spirit May Never Phone Home Again
NASA is hoping for a 'miracle from Mars' as mission controllers wait to hear from Spirit. The rover is trying to survive its toughest winter yet, and may never phone home again....
Researchers using NASA's THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights. They call it "the spacequake."...
Space Weather Turns into an International Problem
Representatives from more than 25 of the world's most technologically-advanced nations have gathered in Germany today to hear about a problem that may be too big for any one country to handle alone: solar storms....
A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere
Researchers are puzzling over a sharper-than-expected collapse of Earth's upper atmosphere during the deep solar minimum of 2008-09....
Rosetta Discovers Haunting Beauty in Deep Space
The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe is beaming back hauntingly beautiful images of mysterious asteroid Lutetia....
Astronomy Cmarchesin
NGC 4038/4039 - Antennae GalaxiesCredit: NASA, ESA, SAO, CXC, JPL-Caltech, and STScIAcknowledgment: G. Fabbiano and Z. Wang (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), and B. Whitmore (STScI)Highest-quality download optionsA beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light-years from Earth,...
Seeing a Stellar Explosion in 3D
PR Image eso1032aThe material around SN 1987A (artist’s impression)PR Video eso1032aThe material around SN 1987A (artist’s impression)PR Video eso1032bZoom on SN1987AAstronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time obtained a three-dimensional view of the distribution of the innermost material expelled by a recently exploded star. The original...
NASA Reveals Key to Unlock Mysterious Red Glow in Space
Above image combines visible-infrared Spitzer Space Telescope images of the galaxy Messier-82. The red streaming away from the galaxy into intergalactic space traces the infrared emission from PAHs.Above image is an interstellar nebula, showing the emission from PAHs in red, some PAH molecular structures and the interstellar PAH infrared signature....
Into the Wild: Spitzer Space Telescope Surveys the Milky Way's Outback
IRAS 21078+5211Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/2MASS/B. Whitney (SSI/University of Wisconsin)A new survey by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has turned up treasures aplenty in the outer regions of the Milky Way, where amidst fogs of interstellar chemicals some rare, young and enormous stars are blasting gas out into space. These very first images from the...
Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit
Cassini radar sees sand dunes on Saturn's giant moon Titan (upper photo) that are sculpted like Namibian sand dunes on Earth (lower photo). The bright features in the upper radar photo are not clouds but topographic features among the dunes. Image credit: NASA/JPL (upper photo); NASA/JSC (lower photo). Larger...
Brilliant Star in a Colourful Neighbourhood
PR Image eso1031aThe Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22PR Image eso1031bPanoramic view of the WR 22 and Eta Carinae regions of the Carina NebulaPR Image eso1031cThe Carina Nebula in the constellation of CarinaPR Video eso1031aZooming in on the Carina Nebula around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22PR Video eso1031bPanning...
Hogg's Research
I worked on writing up the accomplishments of the week. Between hierarchical exoplanet modeling, Pan-STARRS calibration, and variability-selecting quasars, there is a lot to write about....
I realized today that my eccentricity distribution code can use the methods of Gaussian processes. This pleased me greatly, as I have been wanting to learn about them. I also gave a short talk on image modeling and worked on updating my well-known but out-of-date SDSS zoom (see...
Myers and I worked out a robust likelihood function to use for comparing synthetic Pan-STARRS fluxes to real Pan-STARRS data. The synthetic magnitudes will be constructed from overlapping SDSS imaging data, with a flexible linear model. Eventually the hope is to variability-select objects, with two epochs spanning a...
extremely extreme deconvolution
I demonstrated with our fake exoplanet data that my exoplanet deconvolution methodology works. This is even more extreme than Bovy's extreme deconvolution code, because it can use data with arbitrarily complicated uncertainties—not just heteroscedastic but also non-Gaussian, bimodal, or what have you. It ain't fast. In related news, I...
Myers and I sat side-by-side for much of the day getting and checking samplings for the posterior probability distributions for exoplanet parameters for a big chunk of fake data. We decided that the distribution inference code we are writing should run on samplings—since so many astronomers are producing samplings...
I gave my MPIA Hauskolloquium on model selection today. I strongly advocated leave-one-out cross-validation. It is very easy, conceptually simple, robust to many kinds of mistakes (about model space and noise amplitude), and employs a "prediction" utility that matches the goals of most scientists. Despite the frequentism...
uk.sci.astronomy Google Group
In message <vHZJi3C911XMF...@192.168.0.2> , David Entwistle <da...@radiometeor.plus.com> writes As you possibly know, you can download the latest comet data for Starry Night program here: [link] However, this data will only generally include comets near perihelion -...
In message <KdC7o.75433$Y21.17190@hurrica ne>, CJ <cj...@blueyonder.co.uk> writes Hi CJ, Good work on calculating the viewing prospects for the Perseids. Eddie has provided an excellent source for the comet's ephemerides. With respect to the difficulty fitting the orbit of comet Swift-Tuttle to its observations, that's...
Displacing a Satellite Orbit with a Solar Sail
Having read recently about displacing a satellite orbit with a Solar Sail, I thought I could put something simple about it on my Web site, probably within an existing page. A first draft is at <URL:[link]> - any comment?...
news:KdC7o.75433$Y21.17190@hurricane... Try the JPL Horizons web site: [link]. Eddie Lyons Portsmouth, UK...
Hi all Thanks to David Entwistle for his post on the ZHR (Zenithal hourly rate). I thought at the time it was reasonable for me to expect to see at least one meteor each night between 11 p.m. and midnight, as when the radiant is at 27...
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Astroblog
A Paper on Fructose and Cancer, it doesn't mean what you think it means
Over at Respectful Insolence Orac has discussed the misrepresentation of a study about the effect of fructose on pancreatic cancer. This post is a slightly expanded version of that comment, with some added diagrams and a bit more on fructose concentrations. The point is still that the press release (that...
Well, the massing of Venus, Mars and Saturn was completely rained out. Here's a shot from August the 7th, which was much frustrated by cloud (hence no shot with Mercury in it). Venus, Mars and Saturn still make a nice triangle though. Note Venus casting a glow on the clouds....
On the Astronomy Trail in Copenhagen - The Rundetaarn
Left, a statue of Tycho Brahe (with nose), outside the Rundetaarn (Round Tower). Right, a painting in the University of Copenhagen main hall, showing Tycho Brahe receiving a Danish king (Fredrick II?) at his observatory in Copenhagen (the Watermill Tower).Denmark has an important place in the history of astronomy, it's...
Carnival of Space #165 is here.
Carnival of Space #165 is now up at Cumbrian Skies. Aside from a fantastic series of 3D images of Martian Landscapes (bring your red-blue glasses), there is an interesting take on alien life, mysterious gamma ray bursts, habital zones around stars, the Venera missions and much much more. head on...
Massing of Venus, Saturn and Mars, August 8
Evening sky looking North-west as seen from Adelaide at 7:00 pm on Sunday August 8. Mercury is below Saturn, Venus and Mars. Similar views will be seen elsewhere at the equivalent local time. Click to embiggen.The planetary dance continues. Saturn and...
National Science Week 14-22 August
National Science Week (14-22 August) actually starts this weekend in SA with Science Alive at the Wayville Pavillion, it promises to be even nbetter this year than last year, and least year was pretty good. As well as local state events theres The Big Sleep Survey citizen science...
Bad Astronomy
Just a reminder: this coming weekend (August 13 – 15) is SETICon, a convention where science and science fiction meet. You can read all about it in my posts where I announced I’d be there, and a followup. It’s still only $35 for the whole weekend, though there are options...
Just a reminder: this coming weekend (August 13 – 15) is SETICon, a convention where science and science fiction meet. You can read all about it in my posts where I announced I’d be there, and a followup. It’s still only $35 for the whole weekend, though there are options...
My friend, the geek-chanteuse Marian Call, is touring the United States, playing smaller venues in all the Lower 48 (and Hawaii!). I heard her sing in Boulder where she was incredible as always, and also at w00tstock, where a whole passel of folks were enthralled. If you need a sample...
My friend, the geek-chanteuse Marian Call, is touring the United States, playing smaller venues in all the Lower 48 (and Hawaii!). I heard her sing in Boulder where she was incredible as always, and also at w00tstock, where a whole passel of folks were enthralled. If you need a sample...
Happy birthday to two important people
Today happens to be the birthday of two people who are important to me: James Randi, and my sister Marci*. If you don’t know Randi, that’s OK: you can get some good info on him in this interview he did with Big Think, or this talk he gave at TED, or...
Happy birthday to two important people
Today happens to be the birthday of two people who are important to me: James Randi, and my sister Marci*. If you don’t know Randi, that’s OK: you can get some good info on him in this interview he did with Big Think, or this talk he gave at TED, or...
It’s Caturday! And this time, I actually have a picture of my cat. I was trying to relax and watch Craig Ferguson, and she decided between my legs was the best spot in the whole house to be. And look how lady-like she is: I need to stop her before that fourth...
It’s Caturday! And this time, I actually have a picture of my cat. I was trying to relax and watch Craig Ferguson, and she decided between my legs was the best spot in the whole house to be. And look how lady-like she is: I need to stop her before that fourth...
Planet triangle graces the western twilit sky
If you look west after sunset, you’ll probably spot the fourth brightest object in the sky*: Venus. But as I looked west recently, I noticed two bright(ish) objects just above it. It didn’t take me long to figure out that they were the planets Saturn and Mars. Both looked red due...
Planet triangle graces the western twilit sky
If you look west after sunset, you’ll probably spot the fourth brightest object in the sky*: Venus. But as I looked west recently, I noticed two bright(ish) objects just above it. It didn’t take me long to figure out that they were the planets Saturn and Mars. Both looked red due...
These are the drums the world will end
You know what’s cool? This: I love this song. And yeah, that’s me doing the voiceover for it. You should buy Geo’s album "Trebuchet", too. It has that song and lots of other cool ones, too....
These are the drums the world will end
You know what’s cool? This: I love this song. And yeah, that’s me doing the voiceover for it. You should buy Geo’s album "Trebuchet", too. It has that song and lots of other cool ones, too....
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