by Pamela | May 2, 2008 | Personal
It is a warm, crisp and clear, spring evening. The stars are bright and Sirius cast an angry glow in in the west as I walked home from a local pub with my husband. I live in a historic neighborhood filled with older homes and midwestern attempts at English...
by Pamela | May 1, 2008 | Personal
One year later, and still going strong the Carnival of Space plays an anniversary visit to its founding blog, Why Homeschool. Check it out here.
by Pamela | Apr 30, 2008 | Personal
As an undergrad and even for most of my graduate school years, astronomy had this problem: Globular Clusters seemed to be older than the universe. We all knew this was a matter of someone calculating something wrong, but no one knew what. Cosmologists, looking at the...
by Pamela | Apr 28, 2008 | Personal
Earlier this evening a friend sent me a link to this blog post. Having only recently been introduced to a gin that didn’t feel like fire, I was highly amused by the title and the image from the text of all of the US and UK simultaneously drunk on gin and...
by Pamela | Apr 25, 2008 | Teaching
It’s T-6 class days and counting until final exams start at SIUE. Spring is in the air, and students have cast away their winter cloths to frolic in the sun in shorts and T-shirts as they try to cram in as much of college life as they can before disappearing for...
