Monday, November 27, 2006

A match made in heaven

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I read a couple of interesting articles on the web last week, but didn’t see how they relate to each other until just now. The first was an ...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

210Po

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Last week, the former Russian spymaster Alexander Litvinenko was killed by radiation poisoning after ingesting a dose of 210 Po. I am not q...
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Friday, November 24, 2006

Happy Thankgiving

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I hope yours is as joyful, stress-free, and turkilicious as ours was. From start. To finish.
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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Phase equilibria of pie crust

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With American Thanksgiving and Christmas rapidly approaching, the pie baking season is rapidly approaching. One of the most important, but l...
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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Kuril Islands earthquake and tsunami

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Earthquake info: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2006/usvcam/ Tsunami info (the tsunami wanring and watch has been canceled)...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Eye of Newt and blur of science

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Double double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. One of the problems facing scientists and science promoters is that the human...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006

A bit of perspective, lab style

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High School science is not a particularly memorable period in one’s journey through life. The science geeks generally know everything alrea...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Jan Veizen’s cosmic ray climatology

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Last week we had Jan Veizen, a long-ago ANU alumnus, come back to give a talk about how hew thinks that Phanerozoic climate is primarily gov...