Happy Moon Landing Day

July 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Science |

Kot​tke​.org will be replay­ing the live CBS broad­casts of the land­ing and the first steps on the Moon, in “real time,” later today. Tune in here at 4:10 pm EDT for Wal­ter Cronkite’s live broad­cast of the land­ing, and again at 10:51 pm EDT for the epochal first step.

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Math Geekery

July 14th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Science |

Here’s a not-easy test for divis­i­bil­ity by 7:

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Political Climatology

February 8th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Politics, Science |

It’s prob­a­bly not good for my intel­lec­tual well-being, but I sub­scribe to a cou­ple of right-wing mail­ing lists just to keep track. Some­times it’s dif­fi­cult, like this weekend’s “World­view Week­end” news. If you’re not famil­iar with them they’re con­ser­v­a­tive, “fun­da­men­tal­ist” Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion run by a guy who is a strict Bib­li­cal lit­er­al­ist, espe­cially the parts about how awe­some cap­i­tal­ism is.

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Astronomy

July 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Science, Travelogues |

The United Astron­omy Clubs of New Jer­sey have an incred­i­ble, com­mand­ing view that stretches about as far as any I’ve seen in the state.
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From The Nice People Who Brought You The Word “Zaftig.”

May 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Art, Science |

I showed it to a male col­league, and his response was, ‘Nothing’s changed in 40,000 years.’” –Uni­ver­sity of Tübin­gen archae­ol­o­gist Nicholas Conard200951311

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Happy Birthdays

February 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music, Politics, Science |

Tomor­row is the 200th birth­day of both Abra­ham Lin­coln and Charles Dar­win. If you stretch it out to last week you can add Felix Mendelssohn. The three of them within a week and a half. Does that strike you as a lot of “house­hold name” peo­ple to be born in such a short period of time?

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Forty Years Ago Tonight

December 24th, 2008 | Comments Off | Science |

good night, good luck, a Merry Christ­mas and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth.” — Frank Bor­man aboard Apollo 8, Decem­ber 24, 1968

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H.M.

December 6th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Science |

I’d never heard of him before — few had, he had only been iden­ti­fied by his ini­tials to pro­tect his pri­vacy — but his obit­u­ary made the front page of Friday’s paper.

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Conjunction

December 1st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Science |

Get your­self out this evening about an hour before sun­set and look to the south­west hori­zon for a won­der­ful con­junc­tion of Venus, Jupiter and a new cres­cent Moon. We spot­ted an early ver­sion of this (before the moon was in posi­tion) and thought they were a cou­ple of air­planes, they were so bright.

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Science Fiction

November 13th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Science |

This is out­ra­geously cool.

The HST took this visible-light photo of an extra­so­lar planet — the first ever — orbit­ing the star Fomalhaut.

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Perseids

August 12th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Science |

3 a.m. found me lying on my back on a ten­nis court, watch­ing the north­ern sky for the Per­seids meteor shower. We saw a hand­ful, and it was good. But it’s also why I’m not writ­ing a longer post.

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They’re Never Too Young To Learn

July 13th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Science |

And why not? When my kids were old enough to col­lect plush toys they learned the names of all the Beanie Babies. And what’s that going to do for them when they work on their PhD in physics at Berke­ley? Nowhere, that’s where.

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