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Has anyone seen my flying saucer?
Published on 26 Jun 2007 at 9:45 pm.
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Filed under Uncategorized, astrophotography, college teaching.
One of the things that comes from being an astronomy professor is that whenever anyone calls the college and asks about anything in the sky, the operators relay them to me. Also, if you do a search of the college faculty for astronomy faculty, my name is prominently displayed, along with my office number. Normally, […]
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Math Moves U
Published on 21 Jun 2007 at 3:40 pm.
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Raytheon has come up with something that looks very interesting to me. It is called Math Moves U.  This is math contest for kids ages 10 to 14. The contest web page allows contestants to answer various mathematics problems related to a mission to Mars. The questions should be suitable for good math students […]
Science and the Press
Published on 17 Jun 2007 at 5:49 pm.
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When I was young, I remember watching the news coverage of the space program. I am too young to remember the Mercury Project, and I only dimly remember some of the Gemini missions. However, I remember sitting in front of the TV for hours watching the Apollo missions. My parents would be […]
The meteorite and the tornado
Published on 9 May 2007 at 1:10 pm.
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The news media pride themselves on accurate unbiased reporting of important events. Yeah, right. I’ll grant that they report on events. Those adjectives, though, …
An example came just a little while ago. Someone asked me about the meteorite that fell during the monster tornado that destroyed the town of Greensburg, Kansas. […]
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National Donate Life Month
Published on 29 Apr 2007 at 12:03 am.
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Well, here it is the end of April. A friend recently told me that April is National Donate Life Month and asked if I’d mind mentioning that in my blog. So, even though it isn’t one of my usual topics of discussion, I am going to mention it because this is an important […]
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60 years ago.
Published on 16 Apr 2007 at 2:24 pm.
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April 16, 1947.
This isn’t an astronomical post, but rather a historical one. I grew up in Houston. The events of that date were well before my time, buy plenty of people around remembered them, and growing up in Houston in the 60’s and 70’s, people still talked about what happened. On that […]
Tough week
Published on 15 Apr 2007 at 12:36 am.
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For all my regular readers, I am sorry for not posting regularly this past week. It has been one nightmare of a week … on all fronts. There’s been a lot going on, and a lot of things that I wanted to do, like blogging, got pushed aside. I hope that this next week might […]
