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Harry Potter Star Party

Over on Stuart’s Astronomy Blog, he had a really neat post about an upcoming Harry Potter and Book 7 Star Party. This is a brilliant idea that I’m thinking of stealing (maybe some of you might also consider stealing his idea). All the book stores around...

Tau Bootis: Searching Masers around exoplanets

In the past decade, a few things “real” scientists once poo poo’d as science fiction have been found happily taking place in our universe. For instance, just the other day I heard a colleague discussing how planets aren’t found in binary...

Panspermia is in the Air

Tonight I watched the latest installment of The History Channel’s “The Universe.” The week’s episode focused on Spaceship Earth (which re airs Sunday night). This episode addressed many different aspects of the Earth’s formation, how it...

Shameless Plug

Fraser and I were interviewed about the search for alien life by Skepticality. The interview is in the second half of this weeks episode. (The first half is all about the iPhone (Mmmmm, iPhones…).) If you’re looking for something new to listen to and...