assorted bits of stuff from AAS, or that I was reminded of at the meeting
Astro Better - interesting blog/wiki/tweetnode
I'd noticed them before, mostly because they assimilated the Astro Rumour Mill, but hadn't really taken in what they were doing till I saw their AAS poster on monday
Wish they'd frontpage the Rumour Mill - have to dig down a bit to find it
Scott Ransom delivered a very good Warner Prize lecture, it was the first time I had heard Time correctly described as a Helix of Something Sparkly or Another...
Sloan Survey has put out Data Release 8, with a mega mosaic image:
composite picture with caption (click to embiggen)
and
large and zoomable
press release
Planck put out its cold source catalog.
More like this
Anabolic steroid abusers get gingival overgrowth (that would be big gums), or so says this study in the Journal of Periodontology:
A House Divided Can Not Stand...
Tom asks - what do I think about the role of professional societies in education?
Damm.
I knew some of the AAS presentations had been podcast, I just couldn't find the link...
Finally:
AAS podcasts - right now it is a dozen or so from the 2007 Jan meeting in Seattle.
Classic sci-fi story that;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Considered_as_a_Helix_of_Semi-Preciou…