Public Debate: “Are We Alone?” Watch the Video SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer participated in an exciting public debate with planet-hunter and skeptic Geoff Marcy on April 30, 2010 on campus of the University of California at Berkeley. The topic: “Are We Alone?” covered the range of issues related to the search for extraterrestrial life. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'astronomy'
People’s Astronomy
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · boinc
In E&T’s second International Year of Astronomy feature, we discover that destinations for future space missions may be decided not by agencies like NASA, but by groups of ordinary people engaged in citizen computing. Question: what kind of person does it require to detect gravity waves in the universe, or calculate the 46th prime number? [...]
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Lynx Update
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · links
Astronomy Picture of The Day was added in honor of my sister. See Sis You’re No Valley Girl on this blog. Our links are divided into Blogroll, Public Interest, and Science and Stuff which includes computer science, BOINC, climate science, wind, and other things. Notice the link for Junk Science Judo. This material was produced [...]
Introduction to BOINC
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, linux, old computers, thinkpad
Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It’s safe, secure, and easy: Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well yes downloading and installing the BOINC client software is simple. There is more to this than you might [...]
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Sis You’re No Valley Girl
February 26th, 2009 · No Comments · van nuys high
My sister went to Van Nuys High School. Natalie Wood, see photo, was a classmate. We remember Natalie as she played opposite James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause My sister went on to acquire not one but two masters degrees and to achieve success in a traditionaly male dominated field teaching science and astronomy [...]
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