Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Cosmic Catch
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows a very different kind of ice fishing. The search for neutrinos using deep holes in the ice at the South Pole. The variety among instruments used in astronomy is really amazing.
Does not ring a bell, so probably not ("So many books, so little time, so many ex-lovers to bury..."). The one non fiction book that I am going out today to buy is Mike Brown's book on how he killed Pluto. I heard an interview with him at Rick Kleffel's The Agony Column podcast and it sounds like not only a good science book but a good book about the politics and at times cutthroat nature of science.
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Have you read The Edge of Physics yet, Fred?
Does not ring a bell, so probably not ("So many books, so little time, so many ex-lovers to bury..."). The one non fiction book that I am going out today to buy is Mike Brown's book on how he killed Pluto. I heard an interview with him at Rick Kleffel's The Agony Column podcast and it sounds like not only a good science book but a good book about the politics and at times cutthroat nature of science.
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