Usually blog wars make me sad. People get angry and cranky at each other, feelings are hurt, no one really wins or learns anything. I don’t like blog wars. Except, for this one. May I introduce to you, THE TURBULENT SCIENTIST VS. BACKGROUND DOMINATED So here is the backstory. My good friend, Dr. Jake Simon,…
Somehow, I missed out on being part of an excellent experiment at SciOnline a few weeks ago. A group of scientists and science communicators have teamed up to explore the “wildlife of the body” through Belly Button Diversity. They took samples from bellybuttons of various conference participants and let them grow in an agar solution.…
This is a little overdue, but I need to report that I did sit through the 2 hour and 38 minute *facepalm* experience that was the movie 2012. I was invited by Christian, and well, there’s no better way to see this movie than with people who will stay up til all hours of the…
As promised, Tim is writing his first blog post! So be sure to check the author name from now on before we figure out some easier system of distinguishing. I urged him to write up his reactions to the SyFy channel’s 2012 Secrets after we spent over an hour howling with laughter at it Sunday…
I was taking a break the other day and following some fun Twitter links to a story about Eddie Izzard’s marathon of marathons, which is a really cool and inspiring story. (Sorry, I don’t remember who tweeted it first!) This is just days after I watched “Circle” again, and nearly spilled my wine laughing at…
I’ve been working on lots of good (hopefully) stuff for work and also on a longer post of some importance… but a distraction is needed. Sent to me by the lovely Gail, it’s Mike Rowe, of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” in 1992, selling stuff (to put it nicely) on QVC… Holy. Hilarious. Batman. Anyone feel…
Wow, aren’t you lucky. This week we have a jam-packed carnival and sideshow at The Launch Pad! Go and read all the great articles from around the space-blogosphere, from crashing satellites to space geeks and Europa to space mosquitoes. And… if you are looking to spice up your science life, click here right now! You…
I’m not a fan of Chuck Norris, so I’m glad to see his fact list superseded by someone much cooler, particularly, an astrophysicist! Check out the list of Dave Green Facts, written up by some smart and creative students at the University of Cambridge. Awesome. He does however have some competition in the science world.…
John Cleese explains. Man, he is so amazing. After watching that, laughing hysterically, then watching it with my friend, I went to check my Gmail and strangely enough I see this headline in the reader above it: “Human Infidelity Linked to Gene.” Priceless.
Who said there’s never anything interesting on C-SPAN? (Seriously, it’s worth it… your irony meter will asplode…) (Shamelessly stolen from the Bad Astronomer’s twitter post)
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I’m a brand new post-doc in astronomy working as part of the CosmoQuest team. My thesis focused on radio astronomy instrumentation. That means, I got to build cool telescopes that will open up new frontiers in the universe. I also love to teach, both in a classroom setting and informally. I'm happy to talk about the universe with anyone who will listen, and I am skeptically curious about all things.
