I was right in the first place: Dallas
commissioner is a twinkie

post from Bad Astronomy on 10 July 2008 11:52:00 PM. © Bad Astronomy

Remember yesterday’s foofooraw over the term black hole? I wasn’t sure if the second commissioner in this event was being racist or not. Turns out he was (sorry about having to link to a Fox site). That video makes it very clear that the[...]

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West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway Art 4

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 10 July 2008 09:59:55 PM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC

Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.

Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.

West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #4 as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the downtown (southbound) 1 train.

Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].

Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.

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Any TAM6 attendees here

post from Pharyngula on 10 July 2008 09:20:38 PM. © Pharyngula

In a great big ugly oops, the A/V geeks at TAM6 were not true geeks in that they screwed up and lost all the audio of an entire day's worth of recordings at the meeting. This is bad, because it means all the clever slams and insults given to Phil Plait will not be passed down to posterity. If you've got recordings of the event, contact the skeptics and help them out.

(I suppose we could all just call in and make fresh new jokes at Phil's expense, but they wouldn't sync with our lip movements as well.)

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Were you at TAM Randi needs your help!

post from Bad Astronomy on 10 July 2008 08:00:00 PM. © Bad Astronomy

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 talking about all sorts of cool things.One problem: the Flamingo hotel A/V crew, in their near-infinite stupidity, screwed up the[...]

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Nano-sized Circuit Promises Bright View of Early
Universe

post from Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money on 10 July 2008 07:02:09 PM. © Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money

A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe.

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Magnetic Movie

post from Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog on 10 July 2008 06:42:00 PM. © Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo

Magnetic Movie was shot in NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories at UC Berkeley for Chanel 4 in association with the Arts Council of England.

In Magnetic Movie, Semiconductor have taken the magnificent scientific visualisations of the sun and solar winds conducted at the Space Sciences Laboratory and Semiconducted them. Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor were artists-in-residence at SSL. Combining their in-house lab culture experience with formidable artistic instincts in sound, animation and programming, they have created a magnetic magnum opus in nuce, a tour de force of a massive invisible force brought down to human scale, and a “very most beautiful thing.”

Magnetic Movie is the aquavit, something not precisely scientific but grants us an uncanny experience of geophysical and cosmological forces.

Cool video: I must admit I am confused at how extensive the artistic license taken with the animation is.

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“Baby Boom” galaxy cranks out cranky
booming babies

post from Bad Astronomy on 10 July 2008 06:01:00 PM. © Bad Astronomy

Before I get started, let me just preen a moment and say how much I loved writing that title.But what’s it about? A rather non-descript galaxy was seen by Hubble and the Japanese Subaru telescope. It appeared with a lot of other galaxies in the[...]

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Fight back against Bill Donohue!

So far today, I have received 39 pieces of personal hate mail of varying degrees of literacy, all because I was rude to a cracker. Four of them have included death threats, a personal one day record. Thirty-four of them have demanded that I be fired. Twenty-five of them have told me to desecrate a copy of the Koran, instead, or in some similar way offend Muslims, because — in a multiplicity of ironic cluelessness — apparently only some religious icons must be protected, and I would only offend Catholics because they are all so nice that none of them would wish me harm. I even have one email that says I should be fired, that the author would like to kill me, and that I only criticize because Catholics are so gentle and kind.

Oh, and of course, the university president's office has also received lots of mail demanding my immediate ouster (keep in mind, though…Catholics are no threat to anyone at all.) I don't know how much, but since Donohue published the president's email address and not mine, I imagine it's much greater than what I've seen. Those lovely Dark Age fanatics at the Catholic League have started a write-in campaign to start up an inquisition.

So no poll-crashing today. Instead, I would appreciate it if you would write a short note to President Robert Bruininks in support (he's going to hate me for this). I have to ask for a few constraints, though: only do so if you are willing to sign a real name to it — most of the complaint mail I'm getting uses fake names, making it much less persuasive — and that, unlike the religious screeds I'm seeing, you take the time to proofread and send him something that at least looks like a high school graduate wrote it, which will put you way above the level of the hate mail. Be polite and rational, too!

If you really want to impress, send him regular mail at this address:

President Robert H. Bruininks
202 Morrill Hall
100 Church Street S.E.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Bill Donohue has a loud, braying voice, and he's already trying to stir up a witch hunt. We need a counter-campaign from the secular community.

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New hearing aid technology passes the restaurant
noise test

post from Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money on 10 July 2008 05:08:32 PM. © Science Blog - Send lawyers, guns and money

The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush ? the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices ? was the crucial test of new hearing aid technology in a study conducted by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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Photoshop and the Iranian Missile That
Wasn't

Yesterday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard released an image of a missile test that news agencies around the world are now claiming was digitally-altered. The photo below was released originally by Sepah News. The sections circled in orange and red are the handiwork of the New York Times.

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