Perhaps many of you already know that one of the satellites I do educational stuff for is Swift, which studies fantastic explosions called gamma-ray bursts.
Tip o’ the blue hair to my slacker pals.
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Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He's written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic and fights the abuse of science, but his true love is praising the wonders of real science.
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August 13th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Oh sheesh! For a second I thought that was Aunt Bee!
August 13th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Gives ‘bursting with knowledge’ a new meaning, huh?
August 13th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Do you know about this?
August 13th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
That’s pretty cool! Keep up the good blogs, short but informative! Dyslexics love that!
Nice stuff there, It’s cool.
August 13th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Off topic: Phil Plait’s appearance on Penn and Teller Bullsh*t:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3143048862360929736
August 14th, 2006 at 7:20 am
good blogs, short but informative.
August 14th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Hit the decks, retreat to your fall out shelter it’s going to bake us some cookies!