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April 8th @ 7PM -- premiere of the short film "Dark Matter", starring me, at Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR!
December 31, 2009
Category: Astronomy
Blue Moon You knew just what I was there for You heard me saying a prayer for Someone I really could care for... -Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart Tonight is the last night of 2009, there's a full Moon, there's...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 2:13 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2009
Category: Physics
Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And since we've no place to go, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! -Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne Yesterday in the late afternoon (and yes,...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 4:22 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2009
Category: Solar System
Watch me as I gravitate (hahahahaha). -Gorillaz Gravity -- unbelievably -- is the weakest force of all. But if you get enough mass together, gravity will overwhelm even the strongest outside influence. A simple case-in-point? You take a rock that's...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 1:30 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 27, 2009
Category: Random Stuff
I discerned huge Orion, driving wild beasts together over the field of asphodel, the very ones that he once had killed on lonely mountains, he grasped in his hands a mace of bronze, never to be broken. -Odysseus, in the...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 12:47 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 25, 2009
Category: Astronomy
I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome. -Hannibal of Carthage Today is Christmas Day, but did you know that this holiday, in addition to being a solstice celebration, has its...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 3:51 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 23, 2009
Category: Physics
089:32:50 Mattingly: Apollo 8, Houston. [No answer.] 089:33:38 Mattingly: Apollo 8, Houston. 089:34:16 Lovell: Houston, Apollo 8, over. 089:34:19 Mattingly: Hello, Apollo 8. Loud and clear. 089:34:25 Lovell: Roger. Please be informed there is a Santa Claus. 089:34:31 Mattingly: That's...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 5:18 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2009
Category: Environment
Thanks to NASA's Terra satellite for providing this image: That tiny little white bar on the lower left, by the way? That's the scale of this image: 50 km (31 miles). You know, as opposed to how it normally looks,...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 5:04 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Astronomy
Kenneth: These are my all inclusive holiday decorations. Here's a little Christmas tree. Tracy: Ok. Kenneth: A menorah. Tracy: Dig. Kenneth: A picture of President Obama for the Muslims. Tracy: I'm gonna let that one slide. Kenneth: And a bowl...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 3:21 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 20, 2009
Category: Environment
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. -Luciano Pavarotti I'm not going to lie to you; I think Pavarotti's totally...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 5:37 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 18, 2009
Category: Dark Matter
One of the reasons I write here on ScienceBlogs is because of our associations with the New York Times, a journalistic news source that I'm proud of on most days. Today is not one of those days. It isn't just...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 1:24 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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