Explaining the Universe one crazy particle at at time. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The 11/3 Project www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis and Real Science! A recent interview with Al Gore on his new book: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – [...]

If you didn’t catch the release earlier this week, the groovy folks at Symphony of Science have released a new video.  This one features Carl Sagan, Robert Jastrow, Michio Kaku and some Richard Dawkinsy goodness. Now I know you want to get your galactic groove on to the rest of the videos. Man, the song [...]

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens . . . The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and [...]

While I still have to write more about the details about my summer internship in Tucson, this morning I’ll share a story I heard there about… Pittsburgh. I spent my summer sheltered from the blazing Tucson sun in an air conditioned room filled with big glossy-screened iMacs.  I was using software called SPECTRE and MOOG [...]

Scientists, liberals, libertarians, conservatives, housewives, extraterrestrial migrant workers, Mole People  – just about anyone who has two neurons to rub together should be up in arms over the hyper-ridiculous Creation Museum, located in suburban Cincinnati (cringe).  In case you haven’t heard about this place, it is a $27 million facility headed up by hairy creationist [...]

From the Post-Gazette, it looks like “Jake” the old star projector at the original Buhl Science Center that many of us know and love, will finally be be coming out of retirement.  It had been put into storage after the new Carnegie Science Center vacated the old Buhl Planetarium space in the early 90s. Carnegie [...]

Hello!  Sorry so “silent” lately – the normal school workload, plus some extra reading for the summer coming up, plus trying to get the UC Observatory up and running makes Davin something something.  Well, I guess that would be “deblogged.”  When things get to the point where I only have 3 budgeted mouse clicks per [...]

Hey all! All relativistic dynamics and no play makes Einstein something something, so I’m glad to be able to write!  Because Facebook makes it so very easy to post things, I’ve been posting things there just about every day.  It’s hard to imagine that my time is measured in mouse “clicks” where I have time [...]

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It’s January 1st!   Time to celebrate the year of the Ox, Gorilla and Katie Couric! But the real party this year is in the stars.  2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first observations with his telescope.  The year will be filled with all kinds of activities drawing attention [...]

This interesting article by futurebird entitled “Who Builds a School Without Windows” is an interesting story of what happens when architecture interacts – well, you might say in this case, battles -  the social conditions of the world around it.  The author kept passing this building during his commute, and was very surprised to find [...]