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Archive for October, 2008

Oct 20th, 2008
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Black Holes Only Grow So Big

A few weeks ago there was a fairly cool paper on arXiv that suggested that supermassive black holes may only be able to grow so big.
This triggered several Astronomy Cast listeners to write and basically say “Huh?” We addressed this a little bit in today’s questions show (real show to follow tomorrow or Wednesday - [...]

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Oct 16th, 2008
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Soldiers in the Classroom

I think I might have mentioned on this blog a couple of times that one of the classes I  sometimes teach is physics for elementary  education majors. All told, I have probably interacted with 100 different education students across a couple different years. It’s not a lot, but we try and keep the class sizes [...]

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Oct 10th, 2008
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Loving what we do (& AHWOSG)

It’s odd how sometimes ideas will all come together  all at once.  I’ll see in a book, see on the television, and see even in my own notes the same thing resonating loudly. This has been one of those odd 48 hour periods of everything coming together all at once. While flying to Nebraska last [...]

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Oct 8th, 2008
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This weekend in Nebraska…

This weekend I’m going to be at the University of Nebraska of Lincoln giving a series of talks. I have to say, I’m a bit wowed by the amount of advertising they’ve done. They have cool graphics in particular on this advert for a lunch time talk, a flier posted for my after dinner talk, [...]

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Oct 4th, 2008
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Mythbusters give me reason to fear my water heater

I am a bit sad that our water heater video is getting my hits then my science talks, but…
The Mythbusters have given me a new reason to keep watching the water heater:

And as a reminder, here’s our Pilot Episode (related to my Husband’s Blog).

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Oct 4th, 2008
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On WorldCast

Just a heads up that I’ll be on WorldCast later today, 3pm Central / 4pm Eastern / 9pm London
Free TV : Ustream

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Oct 3rd, 2008
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Citizen Plumbing (It’s not quite Galaxy Zoo)

If, like me, you are eagerly awaiting the launch of galaxy Zoo 2, but not quite sure what to do in interim, I invite you to participate in a new citizen plumbing project dedicated to determining when (and why) the flame in the video below keeps going out.

FlexMonkeyPatch “Pilot Episode,” is a program to figure [...]

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Oct 2nd, 2008
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Making Google Gadgets Go

So, any of you who read my twitter know that I’ve been working on Portal to the Universe this week. Part of this is figuring out what goes into making astronomy tools (for fun and work) that can live on iGoogle pages and on normal webpages like this one. Today I managed, with a fair [...]

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