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Archive for November, 2008

I’m still enjoying a great time in New York and New Jersey with friends and family. I try to cram so much into these little visits! But it’s nice to take a little break with my laptop and read up on the latest Carnival of Space at Tiny Mantras. What a cute [...]

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Happy Black Friday

Seriously sickening.

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Blurbs…

My thought process is increasingly random as the holiday approaches, so I’ll celebrate that with some random links from the past week or so…
First, the ISS turns 10 years old at Big Pictures of the Boston Globe. So pretty! And quite a spectacular sight to watch it grow in these pictures. First seen [...]

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We Dance

We dance because we want to. Because we love the music and we love our bodies. We love the glitter and the sequins or the metal and the fringe. We dance for our strength and for our femininity. We dance in solidarity. We dance for individuality.
We dance to ancient [...]

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First, check out the Thanksgiving-tacular Carnival of Space #80 at Starts with a Bang!
I’ve been keeping up with some of the International Year of Astronomy news at Pamela Gay’s Star Stryder blog, and you should, too! One of the “cornerstone” projects is the Portal to the Universe. Here, you can look at lots [...]

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Hometown Astronomy

Discovery.com reports that NYC may have suffered a major tsunami due to an asteroid impact over 2,000 years ago. Of course, it wasn’t a city then. But evidence in the form of little carbon spherules found in the silt near the Hudson River give clue to a giant impact. Too bad that [...]

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WBC recap

So I mentioned earlier that I would be attending the counter-protest to the Westboro Baptist Church’s protest of the “Laramie Project” at UVa. Although the WBC never showed up, the counter-protest was pretty darn awesome. Lots of people showed up to support the message of tolerance and love!

A bit of the crowd lining [...]

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GMail Themes

… are on the loose.

Did ya even have to ask?

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Will you be swinging through West Virginia any time soon? Maybe you are visiting family, taking a road trip, or hitting the slopes. Then don’t forget to visit the amazing Green Bank Observatory! It came to my attention through the NRAO’s new twitter feed that the Washington Post recently had an article [...]

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Welcome, one and all, to the glittering light show that is the Carnival of Space! Only this time, it’s not a carnival lit by twinkling bulbs but by the nuclear furnaces of stars and the fires of our own imaginations. This week, it’s all about planets as we start from Earth and move [...]

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