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Regular CV readers already know of John McCain's past griping about planetariums. Well, apparently that planetarium is really stuck in his craw, because he brought it up again in the most recent debate: (Obama) voted for nearly a billion dollars in p...
Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?
A) Yes.
B) No.
C) Cannot be determined.
This is from this month’s Scientific American — article...
The latest Twitter phenomenon is FakeAPStylebook, an amusing take on guidelines to proper journalistic writing. Some tips include:
STAR WARS Episodes IV-VI are to be referred to as “The Original Trilogy.” Episodes I-III are not to be referred to at...
Pretty much every successful proposal starts with a variant of the following structure:
1. Topic X is important and interesting.
2. But.
3. This is how we will address “But.”
The rest of the proposal reiterates those three points with enough detail...
The DonorsChoose challenge has now wrapped up. Cosmic variance readers raised an astounding $11,525, with 34 people donating, impacting 2,720 students at schools across the nation. As far as I know, our generous readers once again contributed more than...
Speaking of successful NASA/DOE collaborations, there’s an interesting new paper on astro-ph claiming that the Fermi gamma-ray satellite has found evidence for a gamma-ray excess in the vicinity of the galactic center — similar to what you might expect...