Showing posts with label Nerd alert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nerd alert. Show all posts
Sunday, May 19, 2024

Dream big, young scientists

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Looking back through old journals for something entirely different, I found the following research proposal that I wrote in Oct-Nov of 1996,...
Friday, November 18, 2022

The Witch King’s Forest Reserve

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Yvon Chouinard, the billionaire CEO of the Patagonia company, must be feeling his mortality. A few months back, he announced that he was tr...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Total eclipse of the Death Star

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Happy Eclipse day! Congratulations to everybody who is lucky enough to live in the eclipse path, or who made the effort to get under th...
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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Star Wars teaser far too tame

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 The second biggest thing to hit the internet yesterday was the new Star Wars teaser . Like many, I clicked the link with interest.  But a...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Putting the Russian meteorite in perspective

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Friday morning, a large meteor entered the atmosphere over the southern Ural area of Russia , detonating with enough force to shatter wind...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Viewing imaginary spacecraft from the ground

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I read and watched a lot of science fiction when I was young. I don’t much any more, mostly because I’m too busy, but every now and then I ...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Pie crust phase equilibria: update

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Four years ago, I posted the basics on the phase equilibria of pie crust in this blog. A summation of that post, as well as an update, appe...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Is Twitter...

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the heaven to which bloggers ascend after they die?
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Friday, March 20, 2009

The right sky

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Jen over at Twisted Physics and Cocktail Party Physics has recently set up SEEx - a translation service which allows speakers of science an...
Monday, February 09, 2009

Ill-fitting lab coats

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I was gabbing with some of the technical guys at work today, and the subject of lab coats came up. Our lab manager is getting coats for any...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Fantasy GIS

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When I was a kid, I played a fair bit of Dungeons & Dragons. Rummaging through old files this winter, I recently found a folder full of...
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