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Archive for February, 2009

Reflections on the Goal of College

Posted in academia, college, education, opinion, skepchicks on February 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday’s “Afternoon Inquisition” on Skepchick brought up a very interesting topic that I had relegated to the back-burner of my mind for some time now. MasalaSkeptic asked, “Is college worth it? What are the factors that make it worthwhile?” That’s a huge question with lots of individualized answers. Obviously, I’m interested in working in an [...]

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Happy BSG Friday!

Posted in bsg, fun, videos on February 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »

WARNING: SPOILER! I have a few friends that are just starting Battlestar Galactica now. If this is you, don’t watch this video! Only those that are caught up through the last few episodes should watch this. But if you do, you may hurt yourself laughing at the worst product placement EVAR. I don’t know what’s [...]

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Stepping into the intelligent design debate…

Posted in anti-science, creationism, evolution, science, vaa on February 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »

My inbox exploded last week due to two things: a good discussion on editing and publishing our research group’s paper and a debate on Intelligent Design. Luckily, I have my Thunderbird inbox set to view as threaded, so it wasn’t that much of a mess. My paper comments will stay with the PAPER group, but [...]

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Maybe I just need to buy my own hookah…

Posted in Charlottesville, politics, smoking on February 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Virginia is ready to institute its own smoking ban in restaurants. Many non-smokers rejoice in this, but they don’t realize all the consequences to businesses. I’m personally not in favor of such bans, even though I don’t smoke cigarettes, since it forces the hand of business owners. But really, in the long run, most restaurants [...]

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First Stellar Images

Posted in astronomy, science, space, technology, telescope on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Wait… what? First images of stars? But astrophotography goes way back. Let’s clarify. Last week, astronomers unveiled the first images of stars using optical interferometry* (other than the sun) where the star is actually resolved. Even in the best astronomical images to date, every star other than the sun has been nothing more than a [...]

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This made me giggle…

Posted in astronauts, fun, picture on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

From Pundit Kitchen Thanks, Gail!

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Beckoned by the Icy Moons… and CoS 91

Posted in carnival, europa, nasa, space, titan on February 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »

So I’ve been called to task (thanks, WoodEngineer!) to cover some of the recent developments on the joint NASA/ESA proposed missions to the outer solar system. In the linked press releases, it is announced that the two space agencies will team up to explore some of the most tantalizing targets in the outer solar system: [...]

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Not for the vegetarians/vegans…

Posted in food, random on February 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »

My mind has been everywhere this week. You know how it goes. My blog should be as random as I am then, no? Or maybe I should just get dinner while my scripts are running… CVille Skeptics tweeted this, and I found it uber-hilarious: The Bacon FlowchartClick to see the full version. And it reminded [...]

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New York’s Hidden Museum

Posted in New York, childhood, earth, outreach, science on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This came up about a week ago, in the midst of all the Darwin Day goodness, on Carl Zimmer’s The Loom. He and photographer Justine Cooper each got to take a tour of the hidden parts of the American Museum of Natural History. Long’s photograph’s can only be described as hauntingly beautiful, and I’m terribly [...]

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Carnival of Space #90

Posted in astronomy, carnival, space on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A lovely Carnival of Space was posted this weekend at 21st Century Waves. If you haven’t already, go catch up on all the astronomical goodness from the past week!

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