by Pamela | Oct 7, 2007 | Personal
I now have a bathtub. Yesterday, my husband and I drove 230 miles across Missouri and 230 miles back in the name of saving gobber money in shipping on an acyclic claw-foot tub to replace the one that got removed in the process of trying to save my bathroom from its...
by Pamela | Oct 4, 2007 | Personal
If it’s Thursday, there’s a Carnival. It’s Thursday 🙂 Check out the Carnival at Advanced Nanotechnology.
by Pamela | Oct 3, 2007 | Astronomy, Cosmology, Stars
One of the most exciting discoveries of astronomy in recent years was the measurement of an acceleration term in the universe’s rate of expansion. Announced by both the Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the High-z...
by Pamela | Oct 3, 2007 | Academic Politics, Personal, Teaching
Today I had two juxtapositions of journal articles. On one hand I had the photo-ready proofs of a journal article on the Astronomy Cast listener survey I submitted to, and had accepted by CAP. On the other hand I had a bunch of journal articles my student was working...
by Pamela | Oct 2, 2007 | Astronomy, Galaxies
This morning I was flipping digitally through the preprints on arXiv, and I stumbled on a rich paper on the evolution of Seyfert’s Sextet. In the paper, they discuss Seyfert’s Sextet as a more evolved version of Stephan’s Quintet. Now, these two...
