by Pamela | Jun 11, 2007 | Random
If Blogging and Podcasting are New Media, does that mean there will one day be a Post-New Media form of media? Do the have a name for what comes after Post-Modernism?
by Pamela | Jun 10, 2007 | Personal
A few days ago I got an email asking if I knew anything about rumors circulating about folks using the Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory finally discovering the Higgs Boson – the boson responsible for giving particles the characteristic of mass....
by Pamela | Jun 8, 2007 | Personal
The space shuttle Atlantis successfully launched into clear blue skies this evening. Although the external tank looked a bit diseased (thanks to the patch job that had to be done to after a hail storm), it was still a picture perfect launch. For full NASA coverage,...
by Pamela | Jun 8, 2007 | Random
The following unattached thoughts are listed here in no particular order: A big woohoo to my Astronomy Cast co-host Fraser Cain for his appearance on the Wired Blog Network. Fraser’s Universe Today is a must read for anyone interested in astronomy. Next week, on...
by Pamela | Jun 7, 2007 | Personal
The only time astronomers can determine stellar or planetary masses with any certainty is when the stars or planets occur in systems that are aligned such that we can measure both their velocities using spectra, and we can observe the objects eclipsing one another....
by Pamela | Jun 6, 2007 | Personal
Last week at the AAS there was a press conference focused on how super massive black holes interact during galaxy mergers and why/how black holes aren’t ejected during mergers. That press conference highlighted the work of University of Maryland researchers lead...
