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Archive for the 'Cosmology' Category

Old pics of Old Fud.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

The short version of our principles.

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

Thought for the day

Saturday, October 6th, 2012

Humans are self aware biologicals mashed between timescales.

The war on vegans continues

Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

Holy flaming balls of purulence.  I inherited John Caspell’s entire library of anarchist works – if I lived in the US I’d be subject to a Grand Jury indictment just because I lived close to some government building that was vandalized.  Here’s the link.  Or should I not be worried because I am not young?

The Ice avalanches of Iapetus

Monday, July 30th, 2012

Sounds like classic SF Title, no?

Welshidoc and the three quarks From Jaxamicus, a commenter on io9

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Welshidocs and the Three Quarks: There was once a family of quarks who lived in a cozy cottage in the farthest reaches of space. There was a great big Papa Quark, a medium size Momma Quark, and a little tiny baby quark. One morning Mama Quark cooked them some unaccounted-for mass for breakfast. As the [...]

Roundup

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

Gotta love the Germans: circumcision declared child abuse/harm to child. There’s a fine line between narcissism and self esteem.  What facebook is good for. Don’t even get my brother started on dark matter/energy. Now that mOm is watching SG1….. Yes, wish I had some. Fire up some way cool google search techniques.

When galaxies collide

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

New pix from ALMA.

Who knew? Our Sun has a bow-wave.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

And we’re bobbing along with it.

Mercury does NOT look welcoming

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

But here it is anyway.

Up at 2:45 this morning

Monday, March 21st, 2011

This early rising business MUST stop.  So I guess it’s time for a roundup. Adult onset diabetes foreshadowing in rising level of 5 proteins.  Link here. Lots of lawsuits won’t necessarily help your case.  Righthaven screwed up, but fair use rights have been protected. A very commonly used contemporary chart about radiation exposure, which I [...]

Ah…. why no green stars?

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Here’s a little something on the subject, in honour of St. Patrick’s Day.

Dax was here again last night

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

Jeff and I are super uncomfortable with this turn of events and so I’ll be talking to Dax and Katie whenever they get up – no sign at 11 am, and I can’t clean my room without making noise so I guess the grace period is over – about finding another place to crash.  Keith [...]

Robert Penrose I love you

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Aeon cycles.

When the math gets weird, the science turns pro

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

Or something like that.

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