Comments on: Astro Coffee Briefs from Ohio State

By: Phillip Helbig

Phillip Helbig — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:21:47 +0000

Am I the only one thinking that it was an ad for underwear? Maybe with something printed on it like “astronomers do it at night” or “lawyers do it in their briefs” or “divers do it deeper”. The “coffee” part confused me, though.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:50:43 +0000

too many videos

By: GRBjunky

GRBjunky — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:06:21 +0000

American: Do you think this generation of scientist, just as your next door rich high school drop outs, cannot selectively take in information that they need, but have to depend on an idiot tube?

By: American

American — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:54:44 +0000

GRBjunky,

since I have not read your post, I have no idea what you are saying, but if you make a video about it, I might take a look.

-American

By: GRBjunky

GRBjunky — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:01:09 +0000

Well, while the person who came up with this idea deserve some credit, is it another proof that Americans can’t read, including scientists? I think it takes much less time to read the abstract and scan through the figures than watching a youtube video.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:33:13 +0000

This is a neat idea. It’d be nice to have a website (astrobetter perhaps?) with pointers on how to make these more efficiently. Way to go Jennifer! You’re very brave!

-Jorge

By: Owlmirror

Owlmirror — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:26:18 +0000

Does latex still work?

[testing]

$latex 0.4 M_{\odot} \le M \le 1.6 M_{\odot} $

$latex \tau_{cz,n}$

By: R

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:12:17 +0000

I think physics, too, could benefit from efforts like this to communicate research results in a less technical way. So many laypeople in the US seem to distrust science; perhaps making our work more accessible–less math, more quotidian words–would breed more trust?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:41:06 +0000

I think Alain Connes started this out some time ago with his paper “Fun with F1″
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6J9uyRKiRI

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:47:13 +0000

From a point of view of a person breathing polluted air while stuck in gridlock on the 405 “freeway”

Bringing forward what one would like to do, as opposed to first developing the theoretical foundation from where one can begin to see what they’re allowed to do, is the path usually chosen in the mindset of public opinion.

Anyway, I wonder if the research done by Saders and Pinsonneault could help in developing a theory of inducing a wormhole, by seeding the Sun with heavy metals?

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:12:29 +0000

Hi Sean,

Can we expect a blog post any time soon about this – http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3080 ?

By: Jennifer van Saders

Jennifer van Saders — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:48:40 +0000

Hi Sean,

Thanks for writing about this!

I made this video using Windows Live Movie Maker, which gives very nice results without a steep learning curve. The entire process (filming, learning how to use the software, and editing) took roughly a day. I expect that future videos will take substantially less time to produce, now that I’m comfortable with the mechanics of the process.