Aug
7
Happy Amazing Birthday to James Randi!
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Happy 80th trip around the sun to James “The Amazing” Randi! I can’t remember the first time he came to my attention, but I know the first time I read some of his works on skepticism was in the Pseudoscience and the Paranormal class that I took in college in 1994. I’ve been a fan [...]
Jul
22
Kip!
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I meant to write about this shortly after the talk so I wouldn’t forget stuff, but of course here I am over two months later trying to remember all the mind-bending (and space-time bending) things he discussed.
Kip gave a lecture at UT back when I was a student (c. 1993?), so that was the last [...]
Feb
19
Well, hopefully!
From the Cornell Chronicle:
A movement to immortalize famed Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan with a U.S. postage stamp was launched Feb. 11 for local media at the Ithaca Sciencenter.
Patrick Fish, founder of the Utica-based grassroots Sagan Appreciation Society, and Charles Trautmann, executive director of the Sciencenter, unveiled four renderings by three artists or artist teams [...]
Dec
20
Archive Post: Carl Sagan
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Ten years ago, we got the news that Carl Sagan had died of pneumonia, a side effect of his long battle with cancer. It felt almost like I had lost a friend, even though I had only once briefly been within two feet of him and had only been in the same room with [...]