by Pamela | Aug 24, 2008 | Personal
I just logged into twitter through it’s actual website so I could edit who I was following. Scanning down the list of names I saw the friendly, sunglass wearing face of BlueCollarSci. My heart stopped for a moment. In real life BlueCollarSci was Jeff Medkeff, an...
by Pamela | Aug 17, 2008 | Personal
One of the running jokes in physics/astronomy departments is that astronomers consider 4 instances of anything as statistically significant. In fact, the story goes, two points is enough to define a trend, and 1 is enough to form a theory. Take for instance our solar...
by Pamela | Aug 16, 2008 | Personal
Chris Lintott is currently up in Chicago at a meeting on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Check out his live coverage on Astronomy Cast Live!
by Pamela | Aug 15, 2008 | Personal
Get your taste of space over at Next Generation with this week’s Space Carnival.
by Pamela | Aug 10, 2008 | Personal
For the past 5 days I’ve been in the middle of New Hampshire staying with some old friends. About 5 years ago they bought a bunch of acres on top of a small mountain in New Hampshire. It was empty land with nothing more than a logging road and a clearing. At the...
