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What’s the message?

Posted in education, museum, outreach, science on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This past weekend, I batted my eyelashes at Tim to go to the Hayden Planetarium with me once I discovered it was a few blocks away from a wedding we were attending. We took all of Saturday afternoon to catch the latest planetarium show and browse the rest of the American Museum of Natural History. [...]

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A silly little video I made…

Posted in education, ksc, moon, nasa, outreach, space, technology, videos on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

… with a not-so-little Saturn V. Starring Pluto Little Dippy, last semester’s mascot for Dark Skies, Bright Kids. We’re doing a kickoff party today for a new school, yay! If you don’t hear from me in a few days, it’s probably because I’ve been trampled by 80 over-enthusiastic kidlets. Wheeeee!

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Dark Skies, Bright Kids – The book!

Posted in astronomy, education, outreach on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Forgive me, I’m sleep deprived, and it’s just the first night of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC. (Check out #aas and #aas215 on Twitter. If you really want to sink your teeth into the event, Astrosphere will be live-streaming a bunch of talks and press conferences!) But I will press on sleepily [...]

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Astronomy Songs – Part I

Posted in astronomy, education, fun, music, outreach, science, space on November 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

For those of you that follow along on twitter, a little while ago I asked for some help finding space and astronomy songs for our Dark Skies, Bright Kids end of semester party. And did I mention that my twitter friends are freaking awesome! I got TONS of lists and suggestions and promised to compile [...]

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Where’s Nicole?

Posted in Charlottesville, Expelled, anti-science, astronomy, atheist, blogs, book, bsg, carnival, creationism, critical thinking, education, grad school, iya2009, nrao, paranormal, personal, picture, science, skepchicks, skeptic, space, stupidity, telescope, vaa, virginia, vla on March 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I’m still around. Promise! The last few weeks have been super busy with travel, being sick, and work. Coming up in the next few weeks are my thesis committee meeting, a regional conference for my grant, a bellydance workshop, and a class project to design and guide, and generally trying to keep my project moving!  [...]

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Getting settled…

Posted in astronomy, carnival, education, food, fun, science, space, videos on March 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Trying to get comfortable in the new locale, doing lots of work, and getting ready for a great weekend away… so I’ve been quiet! Unusual for me. But I have to celebrate today’s warm weather and note that it’s getting closer to BBQ season. Remember the bacon explosion? Hijinks Ensue gives it a new twist. [...]

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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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TIME’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2008… and Scientific Literacy

Posted in education, environment, opinion, science, space on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Time Magazine has released its top 10 science stories of 2008. Number One is the LHC which promises to do fantastic science, despite a problem in its first test. Ian O’Neill of Universe Today points out that 4 of the 10 are space and physics related. Woo hoo! I was particularly intrigued by number 9, [...]

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Visiting the GBT

Posted in astronomy, education, nrao, picture, telescope, travel on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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 on visiting the [...]

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Astronomy, Past and Future

Posted in astronomy, childhood, education, history, space, telescope, women on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Happy (belated) 400th birthday to the telescope! 2009 will mark the official International Year of Astronomy as the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s observations. However, the telescope itself was invented a bit before that. It’s invention may be attributed to Hans Lipperhey who applied for a patent on October 2, 1608. Also, happy 51st (belated) anniversary [...]

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