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The Earth Hour project, promoted by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) , encourages people around the world to turn their lights off for one hour from 8-9pm in their local time zone today, Mar. 29. Even Google (www.google.com) “turned their lights out” for the cause. They simulated the lights being turned out today on […]
This year’s National Dark Sky Week begins tomorrow and lasts until April 4th. The idea behind this is to simply raise awareness:
How will National Dark-Sky Week reduce light pollution, given that it only lasts a week and not everyone in the country will participate? The main goal of NDSW is to raise awareness about the […]
Light Pollution in Dublin.Image Credit: Irish Light Pollution Awareness Campaign
This is a very striking photo. I can’t imagine anyone seeing much in the skies over Dublin on a clear, cloudless night. I hope it’s not this bad all the time.
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I’ve never really thought of Ireland as a place where amateur astronomy could flourish, primarily because I thought it was cloudy most of the time there.
Boy was I wrong. Not only is there an active amateur astronomy culture in Ireland, there is also a huge effort toward education people about, and attempting […]
So, I am going to this talk by David H. Levy tonight called Shakespeare as a Skywatcher: Joining Astronomy with English Literature.
David is a really cool guy. A REALLY COOL GUY. He is, among a great many other things, the author of 35 books, the discoverer of 22 comets, the co-discoverer of the […]
I love working at a university and being surrounded by cosmologists. In my last post, I alluded to the idea that astronomers may one day regret calling the impulsive force pushing spacetime apart dark energy.
I was chatting with a colleague last week where we talked about this nomenclature. It may turn out that dark energy […]
Sometimes when I write a blog post, I think of this line spoken by Jeff Goldblum’s character in “The Big Chill”, referring to how he writes for People Magazine:
“Where I work, we only have one rule: we can’t write anything longer than the average person can read during the average crap.”Many people who read blogs, […]
The caption on wikipedia for this woodcut reads as thus, “An engraving by Albrecht Dürer, from the title page of the Masha’allah ibn Atharī’s astronomy treatise De scientia motus orbis (Latin version with engraving, 1504). As in many medieval illustrations, the compass here is an icon of religion as well as science, in reference to […]
I read a short piece of fiction recently that I really thought was good. As with most pieces of fiction, there is a certain degree of truth within it, and, in this case, it is of a factual historical reference to George Ellory Hale. For though the speaker of this short story, reminiscing […]
According to the New World Enclyclopedia:
Historically, the term mathematicus was used to denote a person proficient in astrology, astronomy, and mathematics.[1]
or the plural, if there are more than one: “mathematici”. It is strange to think of a world in which astrology was considered mathematical. But, pretty much every early civilization incorporated […]
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