Posted in Dragon*Con, Galileo, astronomy, bsg, cool, critical thinking, culture, events, fun, fundraising, iya2009, outreach, personal, picture, podcasts, science, skepchicks, skeptic, telescope, travel, twitter, ufo on September 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Holy. Frakkin. Wow.
So, I attended, no, experienced my very first Dragon*Con. It was on a scale of something that I have never seen before. Tens of thousands of freaks and geeks, many in costume, descended upon downtown Atlanta to laugh, squee, drink, and just be themselves (or whoever they want to be) for a while.
Crowd [...]
Posted in SETI, Sagan, astronomy, cool, critical thinking, movies, music, outreach, personal, picture, science, skeptic, vla on June 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Fans of Skepticality (and let’s face it, who doesn’t love Derek and Swoopy?) know that the latest podcast includes an interview with Daniel Loxton, editor of Junior Skeptic and the man behind “Where Do We Go From Here?” and “What Do I Do Next?“ He unveils his latest project, Skeptics Mix Tape, which is a [...]
Posted in Charlottesville, blogs, cool, skeptic on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sleepy girl, sort of sicky weekend but I think I beat it… back for one more week of work tomorrow!
Check out George Hrab’s “On Superstition” from the JREF blog. He has it so right. Catch him reading it at the end of the latest Geologic Podcast. Also, he’s playing at the American [...]
Posted in astronomy, cool, nrao, picture on November 7, 2008 | 6 Comments »
No, this won’t be about Google Sky or Google Mars or anything like that. This is just plain old Google Maps. I was dismayed to find that a topology map website I had used before now required your credit card information to view, but I still needed some view of our telescope site [...]
Posted in astronomy, cool on October 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This shirt is awesome…
and the description underneath is hilarious!
Really, you work all week, on a Saturday you just need to enjoy the TETHYS GET OFF OF PANDORA GET OFF GET OFF TETHYS NO JANUS DON’T YOU GET INVOLVED TETHYS GET OFF GET GET little bit of relaxation.
Thanks, G!
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 [...]
Posted in astronomy, cool, picture on September 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I would be remiss if I didn’t post this fantabulous awesome picture that just might be the first picture of an extrasolar planet around a star.
The little one is the planet around the K7 star in the middle.
I haven’t taken time to read the paper yet, but there’s more good info at Bad Astronomy [...]
Posted in Charlottesville, atheist, cool, events, religion, science on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On Tuesday night, I joined my VAA fellows in going to Richmond to see Frank Turek and Christopher Hitchens debate the existence of god, as mentioned in an earlier post. And I took notes. Boy did I take notes. I was jumping up and down in my seat at some points with [...]
Posted in astronomy, black holes, cool on September 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This press release came out yesterday that was SO EXCITING to me that I was bouncing up and down. In today’s Nature, astronomers write about the successful attempt to resolve the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy using 1.3 mm VLBI. And now you are going, “huh? jargon say [...]
Posted in cool, fun, science on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Been away the past few days, driving around NY and NJ, looking at stuff like this:
and doing this:
Rawk.
Nicole
Tim