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HuffPo still pushing antivax nonsense - Bad Astronomy : Bad Astronomy
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Laquo; MESSENGER: Three days out from Mercury. HuffPo still pushing antivax nonsense. September 28, 2009 8:00 am. I used to write for the Huffington Post, an online news and blog collective. It was started by Arianna Huffington during the Bush Era as a response to all the far-right online media. I didn’t agree with a lot of what was on there — I am more centrist — but at the time I thought it was necessary. Instead he says you should wash your hands a lot, eat well, and take homeopathic medicine. And my ...
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Snowpocalypse 2011 from space! - Bad Astronomy : Bad Astronomy
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Laquo; Awkward Embraces. America and India love their antiscience. Snowpocalypse 2011 from space! February 3, 2011 12:15 pm. Just in case you haven’t seen enough snow this week, NASA and NOAA have released an amazing video made from GOES 13 weather satellite images. I present to you Snowpocalypse 2011. Set the resolution to 480p to see it best.]. The GOES satellites ( Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. 8212; making this a very useful orbit for weather and communication satellites. As I w...
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Abe vs. the LHC - Bad Astronomy : Bad Astronomy
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Laquo; Adam Savage: satan. LHC: go for injection! Abe vs. the LHC. September 9, 2008 4:00 pm. What’s the difference between Abe Vigoda and the Large Hadron Collider? One has a website where you can see if he’s still around. And one has a website where you can see if. Tip o’ the gluon to QuarkMonkey. Links to this Post. Chipping the web: September 9th - Chip’s Quips. September 10, 2008. Und die Welt steht noch « DissBlog. September 10, 2008. Thus, we repeat not ourselves, but history. 😉. September 10, 20...
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Leo's 2013 Sabbatical Results
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Leo's 2013 Sabbatical Results. Helping people with computers. one answer at a time. When I went on my sabbatical, I didn't share the whole story. Even the word "sabbatical" wasn't quite right. Here's the background. By Leo A. Notenboom. When I went on my sabbatical, I didn't share the whole story. Even the word "sabbatical" wasn't quite right, but it was the best I could come up with. A "reboot" is more like it. 2012: The First Year To. For a variety of reasons, Ask Leo! Time for a Break. Hence the sabba...
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Today's the vernal equinox! - Bad Astronomy : Bad Astronomy
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Laquo; The proxigean, perigean Moon. Today's the vernal equinox! March 20, 2011 7:00 am. Today, at 23:21 UT. 19:21 pm Eastern US time), the Sun’s odometer resets, and it once again finds itself at the celestial. Right Ascension, 0. Or, in other words, it’s the vernal equinox! A lot of folks will say this is the first day of spring. I think it makes more sense to call this the mid-point of spring — as do many countries. Like spring. Good enough for me! In real terms, the equinox means a few things, too:.