Valentine’s Day is Sunday!  Instead of trying to decide what to get your significant other, spouse, or family member, suppress your hunter-gatherer instincts for a moment and think about the love you have for that person.  Thousands of symphonies, ballads, sonnets, plays, films and Jem songs have been written about the strength of a bond between two [...]

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One of my favorite bands in recent years, Black Moth Super Rainbow (who just happen to be from Pittsburgh), is releasing their new album “Eating Us” on May 26.  Like the other BMSR songs, this album has awesometacular song titles like “Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise” (free mp3), “Iron Lemonade” and “Tooth [...]

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The giant toad who swallowed the disk cluster the 365 Days of Astro webserver has been dredged up, and the site is now back up. You can listen to my latest ramblings about the Kepler Mission at the 365 Days of Astronomy site or in the player below. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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Update: The 365 Days of Astronomy site is back up, and the podcast is available to listen with the player below, or by going to the site itself. February is over!  The northern hemisphere will soon begin to thaw due to its changing tilt toward the sun in this part of earth’s orbit, and melting [...]

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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 my turn at the mic for the 365 Days of Astronomy project!  Start your Saturday off right by traveling back in time and having breakfast with a bearded guy who just couldn’t keep from spying on his neighbors at night. You can listen using the player below, and you can read the transcript over [...]

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I didn’t get around to writing the astronomy post I wanted to today.  But in a last minute attempt to avoid having to swallow a live goldfish as I promised I’d do if I didn’t write something (hey it’s not midnight yet!), I did want to turn you on to the excellent show Ira Flatow [...]

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