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Carnival of Space #70

Posted in astronomy, carnival, space on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The carnival of the spacy-est kids around is up at OrbitalHub. Learn all about the the Shuttle flight to Hubble, more news from Mars, space elevators, Rosetta’s asteroid flyby, and so much more!

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The Hitchens-Turek Debate

Posted in Charlottesville, atheist, cool, events, religion, science on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On Tuesday night, I joined my VAA fellows in going to Richmond to see Frank Turek and Christopher Hitchens debate the existence of god, as mentioned in an earlier post. And I took notes. Boy did I take notes. I was jumping up and down in my seat at some points with retorts and comments [...]

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Solemn Remembrance

Posted in Uncategorized on September 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

We will never forget.

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LHC startup! And teaching science…

Posted in education, rant, science on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If you haven’t already heard today, the Large Hadron Collider was started up beautifully earlier today in Europe. I anxiously await the fantastic results that the experiments will bring! And if you weren’t convinced by the report that clearly stated that the LHC will NOT destroy the Earth, since natural cosmic ray events happen regularly [...]

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More tools for your BS detector…

Posted in Sagan, critical thinking, fsm, skeptic on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

…From Michael Blastland at the BBC, a series of articles on how to think critically about the facts reported by the media. Part 5 was noted on Skepchick, and talks about the difference between correlation and causation. This is included in Carl Sagan’s “Baloney Detection Kit” and SGU’s list of Logical Fallacies. Some great conclusions [...]

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Event this week for atheists in Virginia

Posted in atheist, events, virginia on September 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On Tuesday,VCU in Richmond is hosting a debate between atheist author Christopher Hitchens and Christian author Frank Turek. It starts at 7pm in the Commonwealth Ballroom in the Student Commons and is free admission. Although I’ve read some pieces from and seen some video clips of Hitchens, I haven’t actually finished his most recent book, [...]

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For all the foodies

Posted in food, fun, wine on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Over at cvillain, 100 Things to Eat Before You Die. I haven’t taken an exact count for myself, but I think I’ve already made quite a dent in the list. I look forward to trying to complete it! (Except for that part about roadkill. I’ll try almost anything…) To wash down those weird and tasty [...]

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Carnival of Space

Posted in astronomy, carnival on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Pardon me, I’m still getting used to this Web 2.0 thing. I had a good excuse! I was living under a physics-undergrad-astronomy-grad-student-always-in-classes-rock for a few years! So here is the lovely, alphabetical, Carnival of Space #69.

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E.T. Phones Us?

Posted in SETI, astronomy on September 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I meant to write a good post about this cool article I saw on astro-ph the other day, but alas, I’ve been too busy. Luckily, Universe Today already talked about it! If you are astronomically minded, the paper itself is only 5 pages and worth the read. Can you imagine how different “Contact” would be [...]

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A God Gene?

Posted in Monty Python, humor, philosophy, religion on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

John Cleese explains. Man, he is so amazing. After watching that, laughing hysterically, then watching it with my friend, I went to check my Gmail and strangely enough I see this headline in the reader above it: “Human Infidelity Linked to Gene.” Priceless.

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