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Archive for the ‘scuze me while I kiss this guy’ Category

October 18th, 2007

‘Scuze Me While I Kiss This Guy: Edwin Hubble

I find it amazing that just 100 years ago, we had no idea that there were other galaxies besides our own.
Around the year 1900 our view of the universe was very simple: our Milky Way galaxy had around 100 billion stars in it, some planets and some fuzzy cloud-looking thingys in it and… well… […]

By Tony -- 1 comment

April 30th, 2007

Hacker’s Diet Online

As I’ve posted before, I recently lost over 40 pounds, going from 225 to 180 (ish), which is about the right weight for my height (6 feet) and age (44). I lost those pounds following John Walker’s Hacker’s Diet. The approach he uses involves lots of easy to understand common sense, but the […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

April 18th, 2007

Virginia Tech, AstroProf and Morality

AstroProf has just written a very thoughtful and heartfelt post about the incident at Virginia Tech. I’ve come to really appreciate his thoughts and writings, his blog is of the highest quality, full of original posts from the mind of a critical thinker with deep convictions.
If he presents ideas in the classroom anywhere near […]

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January 2nd, 2007

‘Scuze me while I kiss this guy: Carl Sagan

Of all the people I never met, Carl Sagan ranks as the most influential in my life. As a youngster, wanting to become an astronomer, he taught me to become a critical thinker and the importance of asking the most basic of questions about the universe we live in.
These lessons came back to me […]

By Tony -- 2 comments

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