So I’ve been going back and watching interesting sci-fi and comedy programs on Netflix while I work on more mundane tasks or before bed. Most recently, I’ve been watching all of Red Dwarf in order, from the very first series in the late 80s, to Red Dwarf X which aired just last year. In joking…
I have finally reached the last disk of “Planet Earth” which contains a three-part documentary entitled “The Future.” This was produced in 2006, so yes this is probably old news to most, but bear with me. I’m always behind on TV related things, mostly because I don’t subscribe to cable, and I rarely had reign…
“Eureka!” It’s a phrase connected with scientific discovery. Roughly meaning, “I have found it!” the story goes that Archimedes proclaimed it down the streets while running naked after realizing that his volume displaced an equal volume of water from his bathtub. (Streaking, part of the scientific legacy. Tell your friends.) It is also the name…
NRAO telescopes will be featured on National Geographic’s “Known Universe” from 8-11PM EST/PST. There’s more footage from the VLA and appearances by Rick Perley and Jim Braatz from the NRAO! I met Rick when I was a summer student in Socorro a few years back, and he’s really knowledgeable and super-cool. He gave us our…
This is so last minute, but the NRAO announced a few days back that the Very Large Array and several NRAO employees will be included in a Discovery Channel special airing tonight at 10pm ET/PT (9 CT, ?? MT). It’s called “Cosmic Collisions: Galaxies” and is sure to “edutain.” You can find out more about…
Phew! It’s been a hectic week. With my collaborators in town, work was pretty crazy, but very productive. It got me thinking harder about How Science Works and I’m sure I’ll be writing about that shortly. I need to actually GET to working this morning, but first some entertainment… I got to see these fun…
So I finally sat down to watch part of an episode of the SciFi Channel’s Ghost Hunters. I had dismissed it as silly and not yet bothered, but thought that it might be beneficial to give it a shot. Okay, now I tried to be fair, I put that out of my mind and thought…
In the town of TJ, aka Charlottesville, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Speech gives out “awards” every year to those who have done their best to inhibit free speech. The Muzzle Awards were recently announced, and they were brought to my attention by Rick Sincere who blogs about it with a…
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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.
