Archive of Writings
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Inspiration
Astronomy content will follow (after I finish email and grading). Never in my adult life have I known of a politician who inspired people to hope, to believe in themselves, and to step beyond the land of what is expected into the world of what is dreamed. It seems,...
Go VOTE!
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Short Gamma-Ray Bursts: Two Parent Populations are better than One
When we look up with gamma-ray eyes (or use satellite's like Swift above the atmosphere to watch the sky with gamma-ray sensitive detectors), many different things draw our attention. There is gamma-ray emission from pulsars, from quasars, from accretion disks around...
Quick Share: Asteroid 2007 TU24 & SN2008A
Image is link from Dr. Richard Steinberg's website at Drexel University. It is the combination of (I think) 52 two-second exposure images of asteroid 2007 TU24. Serendipitously caught in the image are NGC 634 and its most recent supernova, SN2008A. (The cross hairs in...
Snow Daze
There is something magical about snow days that never goes away. Thursday afternoon, as the flakes fell the faculty gathered in giddy anticipation of a possible day of freedom. Everyone prognosticated on the possible time the call would come. Would evening classes be...
If it’s Thursday it’s must read Carnival Time
Yes, that was a lame title. The carnival on the other hand, is very much not lame, so go check it out on Visual Astronomy. It's been a long time since I've seen this many people participate. Go mingle with the astronomy crowd at the Carnival.
Dark Energy is Real
This is apparently the post I wasn't supposed to publish. I wrote it yesterday, and had it somehow utterly disappear from my HD after a crash. I then was writing it in wordpress and had Firefox crash on it before the first auto save... In a really cool press release...
Not your (academic) Papa’s Laser Pointer
One of the cool things about my life is that I occasionally get asked to review things. Mostly, I get to read books I otherwise couldn't afford, but sometimes some really cool technology crosses my desk too. Most recently, techlasers sent me an Infiniti 125mW Green...
Many ramblings
I am so so annoyed at myself. I have been frantically working to find time to write between classes because I got this really really cool press release and I wanted to share its findings with you. I just about have the story done (and I'm done with students for the...
Remembering the Space Shuttle Challenger
STS 51L. credit: NASA Sometime this weekend I looked up at my calendar and realized, I didn't hear the Space Shuttle Challenger mentioned at all this weekend. Twenty-Two years ago today, during middle school lunch block on the East coast, the Space Shuttle Challenger...