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Look out Charles!

Posted in Darwin, cute, evolution, toy on October 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

There’s a guy wielding a spear RIGHT BEHIND YOU! Nah, it’s just a cool toy over at ThinkGeek, celebrating human evolution in a somewhat nonlinear fashion, with Charles Darwin at the helm. And just in time for the 2009 Darwin festivities!

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Religulous

Posted in atheist, movies, religion on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Which, I may add, is pronounced with a soft “g.” I had been saying it wrongly. Okay, so the fabulous and wonderful VAA trekked out to the Vinegar Hill Theatre in CVille to see Religulous on it’s opening night. This is the “guerrilla-style” documentary by Bill Maher and Larry Charles which aims to reveal the [...]

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Science videos galore!

Posted in astronomy, cool, science, videos on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

ISS Baby and Moon Mission are two more fun science music videos that popped up on my radar recently. With these, the LHC rap, and Hotel Mauna Kea, I’m thinking that my favorite radio telescopes need some musical-lovin’. Lacking any musical creativity to speak of, I may have to collaborate with my co-conspirators from the [...]

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Astronomy, Past and Future

Posted in astronomy, childhood, education, history, space, telescope, women on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Happy (belated) 400th birthday to the telescope! 2009 will mark the official International Year of Astronomy as the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s observations. However, the telescope itself was invented a bit before that. It’s invention may be attributed to Hans Lipperhey who applied for a patent on October 2, 1608. Also, happy 51st (belated) anniversary [...]

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Echoes and Screams in Space

Posted in astronomy, carnival, science, space on October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m just bubbling with writing, finally, just like the universe is bubbling with pretty things! First, the wonderful, spinning, Carnival of Space #73 at Alice’s Astro Info. The Bad Astronomer shows a really cool Spitzer image of the region around Cassiopeia A, a supernova remnant (and one of the first things our little radio telescope [...]

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Women in science, or just young scientists?

Posted in education, science, women on October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Sciencewoman (it’s like a superhero name!) writes about a recent study of young men and women in the sciences, and their interactions with mixed gender faculty. The study notes that even if professors try and treat all students in a similar fashion, that male students and female students may take these interactions differently in the [...]

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More scary stuff…

Posted in culture, human rights on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If this doesn’t make you pissed off or raving mad, I don’t know what will. First, a terrorist attack on US soil, as blogged by PZ Myers. A mosque full with attendants for prayers was sprayed with a chemical irritant, allegedly by the good citizens of Dayton, Ohio. Don’t be assholes. Violence is NOT the [...]

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Debate 2008 and the Economy

Posted in economics, politics on October 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

With thesis proposal out of the way, I can finally focus on the world around me. Um, maybe I want to go back into my little hole after looking around… I finally got a chance to catch up on the first presidential debate at Hulu. Needless to say, I was unimpressed. Besides the ridiculous fact [...]

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