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Winter Wonderland

Posted in Charlottesville, snow, videos on December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you are my friend on Twitter, you’ve probably been oversaturated with this already… but it FREAKIN SNOWED here in Charlottesville! We unofficially measured 20 inches outside of my apartment, and some people in the area measured even more. A snowstorm like this can be very dangerous as some lost power (most of us had [...]

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My very first Letter to the Editor

Posted in Charlottesville, climate change, science, skeptic on December 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

In response to a post on the Hook news blog, “Pelt Michaels? Climategate includes swipe at Pat.“  I hope I don’t sound like a total goober… I’d like to briefly respond to the Hook news blog post by Lisa Provence titled “Pelt Michaels? Climategate includes swipe at Pat.”  It was incorrectly reported here that Dr. [...]

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Updates on anti-vax, woo, and flying cars…

Posted in Charlottesville, Iraq, Randi, anti-science, medicine, pseudoscience, skeptic, stupidity, vaccines on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have updates on some of what I’ve been writing about lately. So listen up! In my H1N1 post, I mentioned the “backwards walking cheerleader.”  Via Skepchick, please read this entire post by Orac summing up the aftermath. In summary, Desiree Jennings was taken in by Generation Rescue, the anti-vaxx group that Jenny McCarthy associates [...]

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Unicorns and Starry Nights

Posted in Charlottesville, astronomy, outreach on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This semester, a number of astronomers at UVa are participating in a project called Dark Skies, Bright Kids.  Each week, a group head out to a local elementary school and do astronomy-related project with the third, fourth, and fifth graders who have joined the astronomy club.  Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to join the Friday [...]

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Astronomers Fighting Multiple Sclerosis Need Your Help!

Posted in Charlottesville, charity on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A few of our athletically inclined graduate students in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Virginia are going to participate in a bike ride to raise money for multiple sclerosis at an event called Best of the Blue Ridge.  MS is chronic and often crippling autoimmune disease.  The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is [...]

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In Charlottesville, Boobies Gain (Limited) Acceptance

Posted in Charlottesville, rant, sex on September 18, 2009 | 12 Comments »

All kinds of chitter-chatter has been erupting in Charlottesville in reaction to the Hook publishing an article* on successful UVa alumni that posed for Playboy while in college. The article itself is not the issue, but some object the tiny but fully nude photos that accompany it (so that should tell you, but I’ll say [...]

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Grassroots Skeptics launches today!

Posted in Charlottesville, Dragon*Con, skeptic on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Edit 9/7: Link fixed!  Wow, I suck at typing… Go visit it now, seriously. Today is the first day of Dragon*Con, and thus the first day of the Skeptrack (watch it here!).  You can celebrate skeptically one more way by heading over to Grassroots Skeptics, a new effort to connect skeptically minded people in local [...]

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The Chiropractic state of Charlottesville

Posted in Charlottesville, chiropractic, critical thinking, free speech, health, medicine, science, skeptic on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

There has been much ado about Simon Singh and the libel lawsuit filed against him by the British Chiropractors Association in the last few months.  If you look over to the right at the “Keep Libel Laws out of Science” link, it’s easy to tell what side I fall on.  To briefly, briefly summarize the [...]

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I want my flying car! Wait, not like that…

Posted in Charlottesville, personal on August 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

CVille folks may have heard this story today about a stolen car which ran off of Rugby Road today and down a hill. The car was going so fast that it skimmed over the roof of one house and crashed into the roof of another. Those that know me well enough to have been to [...]

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Congratulations, you may be psychic!

Posted in Charlottesville, Randi, paranormal, pseudoscience, skeptic, virginia on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Weekly World News, that bastion of scientific credibility, has reported that 53% of people are psychic, based on a study done at the University of Virginia on the townspeople and students of Charlottesville. Say what now? This study was published by the “parapsychology division of the University of Virginia School of Medicine” in the Journal [...]

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