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Archive for January, 2009

Carnival of Space #88

Posted in carnival, grad school, space on January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The SpaceWriter is this week’s host for a great Carnival of Space, with lots of features on manned space flight, past, present, and future. This topic is clearly on everyone’s minds, with a new President in the White House and the anniversaries of three of NASA’s greatest losses this week. Go and read [...]

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Entertain Your Brain

Posted in New York, astronomy, nrao, theatre, tv, vla on January 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »

This is so last minute, but the NRAO announced a few days back that the Very Large Array and several NRAO employees will be included in a Discovery Channel special airing tonight at 10pm ET/PT (9 CT, ?? MT). It’s called “Cosmic Collisions: Galaxies” and is sure to “edutain.” You can find out [...]

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Bits…

Posted in Charlottesville, movies, podcasts, skeptic, space on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m a terrible blogger. Although, that means I’m actually getting massive amounts of work done. (But getting sick, that wasn’t fun!) And dance has started up again… crazy schedule!
We just had the 3rd Charlottesville Skeptics Meetup tonight, and it was awesome! So many of us, we rocked Court Square. A little while ago, our [...]

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Updates for Skeptics and ET Hopefuls

Posted in Charlottesville, Mars, science, skeptic on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There have been some really great sciencey updates over at the Charlottesville Skeptics blog, including a proposed book club and the upcoming Social Hour on January 22nd at Court Square (also advertised on the Skepchick events page!).
I also want to link to my good friend Nix and her own example of everyday skepticism, although she [...]

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Astronomy Everywhere

Posted in astronomy, carnival, iya2009, music, space on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So I’m back to the lab this week, and hitting work hard since I have a to-do list as long as… well… insert inappropriate comment here. But here are some astronomy-related happenings that have caught my attention.
Carnival of Space #86 is up and running at collectSPACE. If your head still hasn’t exploded from [...]

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The Bellydancing Astronomer

Posted in belly dancing, picture on January 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »

In case you were not yet convinced that I am completely out of my mind, check out the new bedlah* I bought this morning…

It’s purple. And it has STARS! My hobby and my profession, merged into one! The stars are probably too small to be seen on stage, but I know they are [...]

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Back in CVille!

Posted in picture on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In case you didn’t know, on a United flight back to Charlottesville from DC, the little prop plane can easily be overweight if too many passengers have reserved seats. And, if they don’t get volunteers to take the next flight 5 hours later, they will start choosing the lowest fare paying passengers to hold [...]

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URSI Update #2

Posted in astronomy, black holes, meeting, nrao, science, space, ursi on January 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »

We’re heading back from an awesome time out here in Boulder for the URSI Radio Sciences meeting, and wow there was a lot more great stuff! It wasn’t too overwhelming after three days, and has left me with all kinds of motivation for research when I get back. Or at least, that’s the plan.
I’m [...]

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VLBA Sees a Beefier Milky Way

Posted in astronomy, nrao, opinion, science on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you’ve been paying attention to the great astronomy news coming out of the AAS meeting in Long Beach, you would know that astronomers have more accurately determined the speed of rotation and size of the Milky Way Galaxy. It seems that now, our spiral home is as massive as our nearest neighbor, the [...]

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URSI Update #1

Posted in astronomy, meeting, nrao, science, technology, ursi on January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Greetings all! I’ve been having a busy, fun, and stimulating time here at the Nat’l Radio Sciences Meeting of URSI in Boulder, CO. The mountains are gorgeous, the skies are clear, and the radio astronomy is diverse and exciting!
I’ve been spending all my time in J commission, which is dedicated to the astronomy side [...]

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