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Spaced Out

Posted in astronomy, carnival, random, space on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Thesis proposal + family in town = productive, fun, and BUSY! And yet there’s so much going on, with the election and the economy and all the usual bits of news… no time to think of it all right now. I think everything is on hold until Thursday.
Til then, Carnival of Space #72!

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Stuff I read

Posted in atheist, medicine, picture, religion, science on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For lack of any original thought over the last few days, I’ll continue to quip about articles that have come across my Google Reader, either on their own or from my favorite blogs (off to the right, see them there?)
Get Inside the Vaccine-and-Autism Scare with a review of Dr. Paul A. Offit’s new book, “Autism’s [...]

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Carnival of Space, and more fun things to read!

Posted in carnival, religion, science on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Busy working, climbing, dancing, and doing chores the last few days, but taking small breaks to read:
Carnival of Space #71,
The epic fail of the Vatican trying to do science,
The very sad news from the LHC, which is shut down for two months due to a glitch (ah, such is instrumentation),
How “Religulous” aims to destroy religion [...]

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OMFSM I love Alanis Morissette!

Posted in Alanis, Charlottesville, music on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Girly squeal time! Just a little. I fell in love with Alanis’s music in 1995 with “Jagged Little Pill” (and really, who didn’t?) My best friend and I used to listen to her CD when we were nerdy little pre-teens in St. Rita’s elementary (“you know how us Catholic Girls can be…”), [...]

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The UFOs are back… on network TV

Posted in skeptic, ufo, vla on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Following the cool YouTube video that was aired on New Mexico public television, we here at the NRAO got another email about the VLA being on TV. This time, segments would show up on ABC’s Primetime. Awesome! So I asked the boy to record it for me, and went about my day. [...]

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Better know a telescope…

Posted in astronomy, telescope, vla on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Get to know the coolest telescope around, the Very Large Array!
Dave Finley gives a nice overview of the work done at one of the most productive astronomical facilities in the world, the VLA in New Mexico. You know you’ve seen it before in the movie, “Contact,” or the cover of the Bon Jovi album, [...]

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Mixing science and religion, in an artistic way

Posted in art, religion, science on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Artist Jonathan Keats is debuting the Atheon, a religious-like tribute to science. So I have to wonder, what do science and religion really have in common? Both can inspire a sense of awe and wonder. However, science inspires awe in the natural order of things, whereas religion adds in awe in a [...]

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Seeing extrasolar planets?!?!

Posted in astronomy, cool, picture on September 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I would be remiss if I didn’t post this fantabulous awesome picture that just might be the first picture of an extrasolar planet around a star.
The little one is the planet around the K7 star in the middle.
I haven’t taken time to read the paper yet, but there’s more good info at Bad Astronomy [...]

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Lunar Goodness over CVille

Posted in Charlottesville, astronomy, moon, picture, pretty on September 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

UPDATE: Rocking great picture by Rachael from McCormick Observatory last night, on her Flickr page, with the awesome 6-inch Clark Refractor in the foreground.
UPDATE Again (9/17): Rachael’s pic gets a kudos from UVa alumn, the Bad Astronomer.
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I got a great twitter update from Nick in CVille saying that there was a Moon halo visible [...]

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Science-y blogging

Posted in education, science on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So I was having fun on Google Reader earlier today, before getting down to business (the thesis proposal writing business, of course), and I need to comment on some cool things I saw on my favorite blogs.
First, the Bad Astronomer has a video (go watch it!) where Brian Cox defends the need for basic [...]

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