Friday, April 05, 2013

Why deflecting asteroids is a really bad idea

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In the aftermath of the Chelyabinsk fireball last month, there have been increasing calls to identify asteroids on a collision course with ...
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Friday, March 22, 2013

High mass resolution mass spectrometry

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Mass spectrometry is the dark art of separating objects by mass.  The name comes from the alchemal days of photographic plate detectors; ju...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Do you really need a Nobel prize to know...

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that heat is most easily lost from the head on cold January mornings...
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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Friday, January 18, 2013

I build huge cans of learning named after a small pink water animal with lots of legs.

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I build huge cans of learning named after a small pink water animal with lots of legs . The can of learning fires the tiniest bits of air,...
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Friday, December 21, 2012

The world has ended, but this blog rambles on.

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In this timezone, it’s the 21 st of December already, and the world has been destroyed. Sorry guys, but the Mayans were right.  At 12...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Odd-shaped lakes in Google Earth

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I was goofing around in Google Earth this evening, performing an activity that started out as meaningful and quickly degenerated into a Gam...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Pre-Proterozoic Political Proletariat

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For those not familiar with old Earth geology, the conglomerates of the Jack Hills contain detrital zircons, and the 1% of those zircons w...