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Post conference recovery

I had wonderful and brilliant (or at least existing) plans to spend part of my weekend writing a summary of everything that happened last week and getting you all the resources you’d need to follow-up on everything that was shared over on Astronomy Cast Live....

2008, The Year of the Potato

Up until a moment ago, my husband and I were laying in bed listening to the BBC. This all ended when they went into a story on the International Year of the Potato and he went into a laughing fit at the silliness of the Year of the Potato concept. (Image Credit:...

GLAST delayed until atleast June 11th

by ScottMiller NASA just annouced ANOTHER delay for GLAST.  Here is an excerpt from the official press release: “WASHINGTON — NASA has set no earlier than June 11 as the new target launch date for the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or...

Mac Touchpad versus PC User

The astronomy community is rich with Macintosh users. Many of us have them because they can be forced to play like a Linux/UNIX box and run all our astronomy software that was developed for Solaris or similar. Now the thing about Mac is they have super powerful...