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I’m in Hawaii up Mauna Kea doing some observing on the JCMT. Here’s the Keck laser guide star, click the image for a quick movie of the Earth turning.
Very fun event where UK school kids get to quiz scientists in real time. Crazy two weeks of intense chats!
The Guardian: the end of you UK stay won’t end with a bang on the door, but with a tweet. goo.gl/mag/aVsVlEX
(0)Do missing Jupiters mean massive comet belts? ras.org.uk/news-and-press…
(1)Back in NZ 5 minutes and a mountain erupts. stuff.co.nz/national/79799…
(0)Having coffee in Lyndhurst (Dorset) the other day I thought a photo on the wall looked familiar. Turns out I have a photo of the same waterfall from 2007, which is in Vermont (USA).
Care about science in Europe? no-cuts-on-research.eu
(0)London, Chicago, Cleveland, Phoenix next. Should still make grand canyon south rim about midnight…
(0)I heart summer, nearly midnight and I can still see the sun’s glow on the horizon
(0)I love Dropbox because I have sooo many computers and without it I’d spend all my time rsync’ing http://t.co/1LfwEYpN
(0)The guy who once said to me “you could be an academic” has died. RIP Paul Callaghan, and thank you.
(0)My old Olympus OM-2n is due for a service. The darkness at the right is apparently symptomatic of the shutter curtains moving across at different speeds, known to some as “shutter capping.”
Beer Festival
A few hundred Santa Claus’ just ran past, and it’s snowing a bit.
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