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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...

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...

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...

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....

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....