Archive of Writings
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Of Bathrooms and Underware
Ok, I have to admit that is a title I never thought I'd use, but it was a weird day. Somehow, bathrooms/toilet rooms, and underware just kept coming up as topics. For instance at lunch... We'd wandered onto a nauseating topic, so I mentioned, to distract things, that...
Another Breakup: Comet Boethin forces Deep Impact to turn its eyes elsewhere
The holiday season is hard on everyone. There is the stress of trying to find the right gifts, trying to get the house ready for guests, trying to get finals graded, (trying to recover from the most malevolent case of the sniffles encountered in many years), and so...
Carnival
While it started yesterday, it's not too late to enjoy this week's space carnival over at Universe Today.
Finals Week
It's final week here. This means faculty are wondering around, hyped up on caffeine and glee that the semester is almost over while the giggle while writing exams and cry while grading them (okay, maybe that's just me). Writing finals is almost a religious act. We all...
Go out, look up, see the Geminids
The other night, while driving home, I saw the constellation Orion looming large over the horizon. This leaning ancient warrior was fighting off Taurus the Bull as he does every winter from here in the Northern Hemisphere. The return of this particular set of stars to...
Making Math Model Nature: Soot, Scale, and Special Numbers
Tonight at my home university (SIUE) we have a special guest speaker, Dr. Christopher Sorensen of Kansas State University, giving a talk on his research (more on that below). I’m currently sitting in the audience waiting through the 10 million distinguished...
Go Faster to Go Slower
As the semester seems to rush to a close, everyone is raising around, desperately trying to get things down. There are papers to write, papers to grade, tests to write, tests to grade, and a never ending parade of end of semester functions to enjoy and suffer through...
Random
This is the last week of the semester, which means my students have sucked all the physical and emotional energy out of me (which is only fair - I'll suck it back when I give them an exam later this week). I'm trying very hard not to get sick, and when I am done...
Carnival of Space #31
It's Thursday, so there's a carnival. This week the portable entertainment has set up shop over at Out of the Cradle. Check out all the fair and have some fun. (If only they had cotten candy...)
Galaxies in the Mist
[warning Will Robinson: the voices in my head that used to help write Slacker Astronomy are forcing me to write in the genre of a sensationalized nature special] One of the most elusive creatures speculated to lurk within the sky are the mysterious very high-redshift...