by Pamela | Oct 20, 2008 | Personal
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...
by Pamela | Oct 16, 2008 | Personal
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....
by Pamela | Oct 10, 2008 | Personal
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...
by Pamela | Oct 8, 2008 | Personal
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...
by Pamela | Oct 4, 2008 | Personal
I am a bit sad that our water heater video is getting more 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...
