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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 has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science.
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January 5th, 2007 at 9:53 am
I think it’s very odd that I can’t get into randi.org at work – I get the dreaded ACCESS DENIED, but yet I can get into The Onion, which has an amusing Bush/FermiLab article today.
So, what does Randi have good taste about? Oh, you, right?
January 5th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Phil – that’s a very good picture of you. Most impressed.
January 5th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
It’s the nerdy, teenage-idol picture!
…or an excellent bottle of Pinot Grigio…
January 5th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
BTW, Bush only WISHES he remotely talk like that in The Onion satire on Fermilab. Somehow I don’t think he took physics at Yale.
That is the teenage-idol picture, but the one I was thinking of was specifically surrounded by a yellow circular border (I have it saved somewhere ‘cuz it’s kind of funny). Alas, I can’t locate it on the web.
But, what’s this? Is Phil really a Teletubby with that thing coming out of his head?
January 5th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
…Bush only wishes he could remotely talk like that…
Or self-correct his errors. :-/