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A Trip To Kilauea or The Volcanic Smog Gets In Your Eyes

December 6, 2011

In National Geographic’s Finding The Next Earth, an astronomer enters the Gemini Observatory at Mauna Kea and begins to weep tears of joy on seeing a brand new space telescope. There’s no crying in science, but I get it. The stuff we see and achieve is often too damned beautiful not to be overwhelmed with [...]

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December 1, 2011

Watching Build It Bigger’s Battle Machines episode, I was reminded of a troubling thing: American “defense contractors” and their subcontractors who have little to no experience and bid on projects that come down to life or death for our soldiers in combat … and call themselves capitalists and patriots. Tweet

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Vignettes From The Volcanoes

November 21, 2011

Back from Hawaii. Some panoramas of various places we visited for your viewing pleasure (please click on each picture to embiggenate). More complete descriptions and tales of hilarity after emergence from turkey coma. Diamondhead Crater from the Waikiki Banyan Northshore/Haleiwa, O’ahu Remains of the Pu’u O Mahiuka Heiau or the Pu’u O Mahiuka temple in [...]

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Sunrise Over Diamondhead Crater

November 7, 2011

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Happy Deepavali

October 26, 2011

Apropos of the reason for this Hindu festival: Questions Lit Up, in which Pratap Bhanu Mehta takes on the Delhi University ban on teaching A.K. Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana and chides the Indian left and right for hijacking the culture for political gain. … The Right commits the mistake of assimilating all tradition to [...]

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National Fossil Day!

October 12, 2011

As much as I love trilobites, here is a photograph I took of pretty Missippian-age crinoids on display at the Smithsonian Museum. Ok, ok, Matt has a trilobite head for you who insist. Happy Fossil Day! Hug your favorite dead-and-preserved-in-the-rock-record critter today! Don’t forget to donate to science classrooms in honor of Earth Science week, [...]

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Sharing eBooks

September 26, 2011

Today’s xkcd: I’ve lost grey matter beating my head on the walls of this blog and elsewhere on the internet that the advent of eBooks does not signal or signify the death of paper books, nor should it. Anyone who wants paper books to go away is in the business of reading for the sake [...]

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Michael Hart Remembered Online – UPDATED

September 8, 2011

This post serves as a roundup of good online articles on and tributes to Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg and close friend, who passed away two days ago. If you come across any that are not here, please link to them in the comments. So much love ad respect out there for Michael; [...]

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Top 100 Science Fiction / Fantasy Book Meme

September 7, 2011

A little late to this action, but I’ve been busy. The results of NPR’s Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are in. A few geos had a blog meme going as follows: Copy and paste NPR’s printable list and embolden (stronginate?) the titles you have read. I add a caveat that you may not check [...]

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My Favorite Rising Tide 6 Photo

August 28, 2011

Three of the six winners of the Ashley Morris award for excellence in New Orleans blogging to date. These are phenomenal people. Ashley winners from left to right: Cliff Harris (2010), Dedra Johson (2011) and The Zombie (2009). Photo by Derek Bridges.   Tweet

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