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Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:51:48 -0700

HOLY FRAK! Moon transits Earth!
Regular readers know I am deeply impressed with astronomical imagery, and I tend to be a little over-the-top on occasion when...
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Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:21:48 -0700

Jupiter’s Red Spot chews up and spits out a storm
Hubble took this sequence of amazing pictures, showing the Great Red Spot — a storm far larger than our entire planet...
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Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:31:34 -0700

Playing you for a SAPS
Alison Smith runs the Skeptical Analysis of the Paranormal Society where she and others put the hammer down on fake ghost...
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Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:42:45 -0700

More round and abouts
Here’re some items that don’t get their own individual posts, but are still cool: 1) The Onion takes on Hubble. In...
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Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:42:45 -0700

How do you weigh a supermassive black hole?
Black holes are cool. They’re also scary, and weird, and exciting. But if there’s one word I’d use to...
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Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:59:27 -0700

Project Urion
When I worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, I was always aware it was a government facility. They check ID when...
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Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:02:19 -0700

Skepticism on TV? Yup.
For all the people who doled out grief to my friend Richard Saunders for being on a TV show in Australia looking for psychics,...
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Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:02:19 -0700

An Oz perspective on Apollo 11 launch
Speaking of Buzz and rockets, BABloggee David Hirsh sent me a link to a rare Australian video of the Apollo 11 launch....
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Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:27:19 -0700

Astroblurbs
Man, it’s hard keeping up with the news. Well, to be more specific, it’s hard to keep up with the news and still...
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Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:27:19 -0700

Because 2012 can’t get any dumber…
UPDATE: Oh criminy. I misread the date on the linked article; it’s actually from last year, so the movie I’m...
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Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:27:19 -0700

Buzz kill
Before I begin, yes, the irony of posting this after making fun of a bad scifi movie is not lost on me. But Armageddon was not...
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Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:19:23 -0700

Illusion-o-rama
I love illusions, as regular readers know. They play into astronomy as well into skepticism; you have to understand how your...
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Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:19:23 -0700

Soccergirl, TAM 6, and me
I was notified by MsInformation that Soccergirl — one of the most popular vloggers/podcasters on Earth — has put...
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Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:19:23 -0700

What is the nearest star to Earth that can go supernova?
This is a common question: what is the nearest star to the Earth that can explode as a supernova? Most people say Betelgeuse, a...
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Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:29:23 -0700

DI and ID vs. GR
I think Intelligent Falling from The Onion was funnier, but Intelligent Motion is still pretty good. Tip o’ the...
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Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:29:23 -0700

Live chat Sunday (today!) at 3:00 Mountain Time
I’ll be holding a live video chat right here on this very blog post at 15:00 Mountain time (21:00 UT). All you need to do...
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Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:29:23 -0700

How do you pronounce kilometer?
When I was in Canada, it was really cool to see everyone using the metric system. But what made me a little nuts was how...
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Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:21:31 -0700

UHaul 1, London bus 0
Hot on the heels of my posting the goodness that is the UHaul truck with the ballistic ejecta equation on its side, comes the...
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Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:21:31 -0700

A different look at the LHC
Terry Johnson is a science teacher in Arkansas, and he tipped me off to this extraordinary photoessay about the Large Hadron...
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:44:52 -0700

Live chat Sunday at 3:00 Mountain Time
I’ll be doing another live video chat on Sunday at 15:00 Mountain Time (21:00 UT). I’ll have it all set up an hour...
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:44:52 -0700

Haulin’ asteroid in Iowa
So I’m out on my bike and I see a UHaul van parked on the road. I like the artwork they put on the sides of the vans;...
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:44:52 -0700

Update: TARDIS shed sheds award
Well, nuts. The TARDIS shed didn’t win. I say we go back in time and rig the election. Or maybe the Supreme Court will...
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:26:36 -0700

Were you at TAM? Randi needs your help!
Saturday was a big day at The Amaz!ngMeeting 6 in Las Vegas. I was one of the speakers, but we also had quite a few others...
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:26:36 -0700

I was right in the first place: Dallas commissioner is a twinkie
Remember yesterday’s foofooraw over the term black hole? I wasn’t sure if the second commissioner in this event was...
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Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:45:04 -0700

Watery Moon, Whacked Mars
I was going to write a post about how scientists have found a significant amount of water in some lunar rocks — a HUGE...
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