It’s coming!!! On Friday, everyone can talk like a physicist. Not sure how to do that? Check out the FAQ on the Talk Like a Physicist blog. And for those of you physicists who do not think you ...
We’re currently watching Dr. Who from last night, the episode titled
…on Gilmore Girls? How weird.
Judge rules against “intelligent design” Pharyngula has excerpts from the ruling, or the whole text can be found here (PDF file; I haven’t read the whole thing yet). To be sure, Darwin’s ...
Last weekend I started researching the history of relativity — how was it recieved when it was first presented to the world? who were the dissenters? how was it presented to the general public?...
For the past two years I have focussed the entire of my thesis work on writing scripts and running data through a data pipeline, while losing sight of the underlying physics. All along I’ve kep...
Be sure to check out Google today, and click on today’s logo. (Or, click here, if you’re here after July 20.)
Astro-E2 successfully launched last night! This is a Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite, and on-board is a NASA instrument, XRS. When I first came to Goddard 7 years ago, I was a grad student wor...
Science Magazine has published a list of the 125 Questions: What We Don’t Know. How cool is that? One issue that I’ve been discussing with colleagues is the public’s lack of understanding o...
Deep Impact Bullseye!