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And the winner is… SPACE!

Posted in astronomy, carnival, picture, space on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The ever-fabulous Ian O’Neill hosts this week’s Carnival of Space #144. There are lots of great astronomical highlights from this week, but I’m particularly in love with this gorgeous multi-wavelength image of NGC 1068: via Chandra, Hubble, and the Very Large Array Check it all out at Discovery News this week!

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SDO is GO!!!!!

Posted in cool, picture, science, space, sun, videos on February 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »

Today, we could finally, honestly, say… SDO is GO!!! The Solar Dynamics Observatory launched today at 10:23am EST by an Atlas V from Kennedy Space Center. (The wha? The this! And this!) And we got to see this: A few people got this shot, but George is sitting right next to me! And there’s video [...]

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A Little Diversion…

Posted in fun, personal, picture on December 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’ve discovered this great new method for dealing with all my stress… I’ll let you know how it works out for me! No, seriously, I look forward to the day when a dangerous cult like Scientology can’t afford prime real estate in Midtown Manhattan. Stay tuned… after this vacation I’ll be at the American Astronomical [...]

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Time Management Fail

Posted in personal, picture on October 15, 2009 | 5 Comments »

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote up a personal mission statement with the hope that it would help me focus my activities.  This was followed a few days later by a meeting with my thesis committee, which, as always, helps me to refocus my research and my career goals.  For the past couple of [...]

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Dragon*Con Post-Op

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 [...]

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Dr. SETI and “Cosmic Carl”

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 [...]

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Happy (belated) Solstice!

Posted in astronomy, personal, picture, solstice, summer, sun on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I had a lovely weekend away from the computer (and new iPhone even!) celebrating the beginning of summer.  The solstice occurred at 1:45 am EDT (summer for us in the North, winter in the South!) and is the time in which the sun is the highest in the sky from the Northern hemisphere, thus giving [...]

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Oh yes, it’s summer…

Posted in personal, picture on June 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Weekend…

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My Philly-Atlantic City-New York-Poconos Experience

Posted in Galileo, Philadelphia, atheist, fun, penn and teller, personal, picture, skepchicks, skeptic, telescope, travel on June 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »

My webernets presence has been pretty sparse lately, as I’ve been away from home and on the road for almost a week and a half.  And I had a blast! So much so that I’m having trouble readjusting to being home.  So here’s the recap for those who care. (If you don’t give a darn, [...]

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Astrophotography contest!

Posted in astronomy, carnival, contest, picture, space, telescope on June 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Hey all you starry-eyed shutterbugs out there.  Celestron and Discover magazine are sponsoring an astrophotograpy contest this month.  The rules include a stipulation that the images must be taken through Celestron optics, but other than that, it can be any picture of any astronomical subject matter!  The contest is being judged by Phil Plait, so [...]

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