With the hiatus from travel, I’m actually getting some things done around here, including blogging! I wrote a piece for Discovery Space News on hidden black holes and shared my experience as a skeptic on a ghost hunt over on…
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Come say hi in the Midwest!
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 4 Comments
Few days… Few weeks. Okay, I’m back. I just moved to the Midwest to start my new job as a post-doc working with CosmoQuest as informal education lead. Woo hoo! My apartment is only partly unpacked, my office just getting…
A Toast to Hitchens
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 3 Comments
I woke up to the news that Christopher Hitchens has died. Well, that sucks. Controversial and ornery though he could be, he was also a superb writer, thinker, and pusher-of-boundaries. So, in his honor, I’ve dug up an old post…
Oh my, it’s already November…
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
Even though it’s been a few weeks, I still want to bring attention to some of the interesting stuff on the internet that has caught my attention… Earth had a visitor of the rocky kind in YU55 which passed within…
Monday (not)-morning Links!
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 2 Comments
Waking up is hard to do… My sleep schedule is bizarre. However! I still have my favorite links and stories from the week to share…
On the Death Penalty and Eyewitness Testimony
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 7 Comments
Last night, at 11:08PM EDT, Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia, despite local and international outcry. Today is one of those days where I really don’t like being a part of humanity. So, let me get this…
“Dragon*Con is my Christmas…”
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 2 Comments
… says Derek Colanduno, director of the massive sci-fi/fantasy/geek convention’s Skeptic Track. “It’s other people’s Halloween,” quips biologist and evolution defender Eugenie Scott. Frankly, it’s a little bit of both. Not enough candy, mind you, unless you really enjoy Tuaca…
See you in Atlanta!
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
Hello, dear astronomy enthusiasts and friends and followers and encirclers… This month has been heavy on GET STUFF DONE, but I’m taking a much needed break this weekend for Dragon*Con in Atlanta. This is the East Coast’s biggest sci-fi, fantasy,…
Leaving on a jet plane! #psa64
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 4 Comments
And all the planning and craziness leading up to today is over. Let the adventure begin! I’m heading to South Africa to work on The Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization, aka PAPER, aka the project on which…
Entertaining Skeptically
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 0 Comments
Brief paper-writing break to showcase my two favorite videos this week. First, Tim Minchin’s STORM has been animated and is finally available on YouTube! Seriously, let the whole thing upload, then watch high-def full screen. It is so awesome. I…