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Self-censorship
Feb 13, 2010 17:08
In the past day or so I have taken an action that I am not proud of. I changed the title of one of my blog posts from 2005 following criticism in the..

Cutaway
Feb 10, 2010 09:20
Unlike some people I don't see why there needs to be such a separation between the two cultures of Art and Science. Artists don't have to be scared o..

Bad Astronomy

The fifth GLOBE at night is on!
Mar 9, 2010 22:00
How often do you go outside and look up? I mean really, just look up at the sky and stars? With more and more people living in cities, and light poll..

Launch Pad 2010 open for, um, launch
Mar 9, 2010 19:17
Last year, I attended the NASA-sponsored Launch Pad Workshop , a week-long camp in Laramie, Wyoming, to help science fiction authors learn astronomy...

Cosmic Variance

From Eternity to Book Club: Chapter Nine
Mar 9, 2010 15:41
Welcome to this week's installment of the From Eternity to Here book club . Now for something of a palate-cleanser, in the form of Chapter Nine, R..

Alice’s avatar
Mar 8, 2010 17:16
In honor of the Oscars, I spent last night watching a movie. It was set on another world, populated by exotic flora and fauna (e.g., a blue creature ..

Planetary Society Weblog

Unbelievably spectacular flight through Candor Chasma
Mar 9, 2010 17:53
This is one of the things that came out during LPSC last week and all I could do at the time was Tweet it, which doesn't serve most of my readers..

Joint replacement operation takes Goldstone 70-meter dish offline until at least November
Mar 9, 2010 17:37
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced yesterday that the venerable 70-meter dish at the Goldstone Deep Space Network station is being taken offline ..

Sciencedude

4.0 San Diego quake reaches O.C.
Mar 9, 2010 04:47
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake occurred at 8:18 p.m. about 14 miles east-southeast of Julian, in eastern San Diego County, and generated seismic energy t..

Strong, cold winds lash Orange County coast
Mar 9, 2010 02:02
I CAN FLY: A kite surfer takes flight off Sunset Beach. Photo by Gary Robbins, The Register Updated 7:05 a.m. Tuesday Strong, cold winds out of the n..

Stars over Kansas

Tom's Astronomy Blog

The Universe, Season 4
Mar 9, 2010 22:15
Coming up on the 15th, we have the bonus riddle. Tom and I are working on that now, but we have the prize ready to ship out to the winner. The Unive..

Redshift – for Bill
Mar 8, 2010 20:25
You hear the terms “redshift” and “blue shift” in astronomy talking about the velocity and direction of travel of celestial b..

CELESTIAL delights

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