Astronomy in a Paperless Universe
What is the best time of day to submit to astro-ph? Do astro-ph and ADS harm publishers? I’ll be trying to answer these questions and others as I discuss the effect of the Internet on scientific papers.
Internet
Get an Automatic APOD Desktop
I was tinkering about earlier and created this automator script, which changes my desktop image to be today’s APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day). This is Mac OS X only.
Tonight: A Line of Planets
Tonight, July 5, look west and you’ll see a temporary “Belt of Three Stars”. Saturn, Mars and the star Regulus are sitting by Leo in a chance alignment that literally will only happen tonight. Very cool.
Police say UFO was Just the Moon
I love that this happened just down the road from where I live. Police called out to a 999 call about an unexplained object in the night sky solved the mystery straight away for their when they realised it was actually the Moon. Well worth listening to.
UK Physics Names Funding Drop Outs
The powers that be have decreed that some ereas of physic are more equal than others. The BBC has a good summary.
New Kids on the Blog
There is a new batch of astronomy blogs to be inspected. This cohort hails from the Discovery Channel and here I dissect and review them all. Why? Not sure really, seemed like a good idea to spread the word. They seem like a good bunch of space people.
Sarkozy: Spaceman
President Sarkozy is looking for UK support to bolster his ideas as France takes over the ESA presidency today. He wants to lead Europe into space in a way that doesn’t leave it trailing the likes of Indian, China and Japan.
The Tunguska Event
A fabulous image and a great article from The Planetary Society all about the Tunguska event, which happened 100 years ago today.
UK Physics Teacher Shortage
Almost one in four secondary schools in England no longer has any specialist physics teachers, a survey suggests.
Lifestream
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Off to the swimming pool. http://flic.kr/p/6BQDKb [#]
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Shared Off to the swimming pool.
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Shared New World Ordered
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Swine flu parties? Are you fucking kidding me? Morons. [#]
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According to @cardiffuni PhD students are not technically people. This is how they are allowed to squish 6 of us into our tiny office! #fb [#]
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Thanks for all the tweets. The #overtwitter feeds remain! Am just gutted that someone was able to do something I'd wanted to do a year ago! [#]
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Methinks @twisst spells the end for the #overtwitter project - I just didn't have the CPU to do it like that :( [#]
