If you know me in person, you’ve probably heard me talk on and on about Dark Skies, Bright Kids, aka DSBK. This is an astronomy club for elementary school kids in Albemarle County, run by volunteers from the Astronomy Department…
Tag: Charlottesville
Winter Wonderland
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…
Unicorns and Starry Nights
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…
The Chiropractic state of Charlottesville
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”…
I want my flying car! Wait, not like that…
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…
Congratulations, you may be psychic!
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…
What is a Skeptic?
Cross-post from Charlottesville Skeptics blog! There’s been some discussion on the email list about the name of our group, and I’d like to throw in my two cents here. To say that someone is a skeptic does not say much…
Lunar Goodness over CVille
UPDATE: Rocking great picture by Rachael from McCormick Observatory last night, on her Flickr page, with the awesome 6-inch Clark Refractor in the foreground. UPDATE Again (9/17): Rachael’s pic gets a kudos from UVa alumn, the Bad Astronomer. — I…