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A Dragon Singularity: The Big Bang and Quantum Gravity
One of the questions I get most often is "Do you really think there are singularities at the centers of black holes?" No. I don't. I think we still don't understand how gravity works on quantum scales. Last week my own thoughts where brought back to the surface as I...
Left Behind by those who Judged
One of my colleagues sent me a link to what is by far one of the most disturbing websites I think I have ever seen (and I had a friend who used to work very hard to try and creep me out). It's safe for work, but your reaction may or may not be. The web site is You've...
AAS New Media Resources
I'd like to start this post by publicly saying I couldn't be prouder of how well everyone did in the workshops and sessions on new media. From handling random technical messes to giving presentations to remotely, from ad libbing demos to answer questions to just...
Language of Virtual Communications
I'm coming to realize more and more than I live equally in virtual space and in real space. I collaborate with wonderful people spread around the world and I gab with them over Skype as we read one another's blogs to see into one another's worlds. Thursday, I even had...
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:...
Carnival Time
What a week. What a carnival. Check it out on Out of the Cradle here.
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 GLAST,...
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...
AAS Day 3: Press Conference at 9:30am
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