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Besides the farmers' market,2008 involved fledging a career in freelance astrobiology from a picnic table at Jack Lake,learning a bit about the extreme amount of dirt and heck involved in small potatoes,incorporating the Global Science Institute,and learning that logos are very costly. Apparently I also I bought a big front porch with some trees and a house attached,and did some galavanting in

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See, the thing is, according to my memory, nothing actually happened since my last post in early 2008, so technically I haven't fallen behind. But today when I rediscovered this blog, I thought, wow, that was a nice way to keep track of my history, because the truth is I am not at all skilled in remembering the past. Ask anyone who has tried to revive an ancient argument with me. Past, shmast,

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Last night Grama and I were watching the eclipse through her window, and I found myself wondering, what does it look like from up there?  Since no one has ever stood on the moon during a lunar eclipse (which I suppose would be called a "transit" if you were actually standing on the moon watching the Earth pass in front of the sun), I have free rein in speculating what it would look like, and I'm

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Having successfully retrieved Jessi from the bus stop while driving at a reasonable speed, our adventures officially began.  We woke up early Saturday morning, and after a breakfast of whole grain pancakes with organic raspberries we donned our down and headed up to Pickerel Lake for the most important event of the season.   For miles on the way up, we were paced by snowmobiles (a.k.a. "sleds")

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One never knows what one will come across in the woods, and this is also true of the mall.  Who is this beautiful blue-eyed stranger skulking silently, his mosh pit suit blending in perfectly with his surroundings?    Oh, the wild fox, the wild fox!  he can't be tamed,  he can't be tamed.

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Indeed.  On my way to pick up cousin Jessica from the bus station in Appleton, I once again settled into my comfortable default DC-Baltimore I-95 commuting speed of 74 miles an hour, and this time there was no grander lesson to learn than that, in these parts, folks obey the law.  Since then I've been using cruise control religiously.I have also completely renounced any tendency to take pictures

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A dog after my own heart, Maddie doesn't let a few quadrillion snowflakes stand in the way of a good time.Yesterday morning, as I was late and racing to record an interview at the Wisconsin Public Radio studio--asking myself WHY I keep making appointments before noon despite the fact that I am obviously a night person--I was forced to pause and reflect on the meaning of it all when a nice police

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In the midst of election obsession, an important unfolding of events is getting away without much public scrutiny.  The old guard neocon advisers do not miss one beat.  When I heard that a failed US spy satellite, launched just over a year ago, was due for an uncontrolled re-entry, my first thought was, "Another billion taxpayer dollars down the drain."  I did _not_ think, "Oh no, I hope it

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Today the good news arrived from NASA Headquarters that our proposal for the New Worlds Observer has been funded for a concept study.  The Principle Investigator of this project is Web Cash at CU-Boulder.  As a member of the science team, I'll be working with the engineers to map out what it'll take, in terms of technical specifications, for a dedicated "starshade" space telescope to discover

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I hope everyone in DC has Ba-racked the vote by the time you read this!  :-)  I will be waiting on pins and needles for the results even though I already know what will happen.Well, yesterday it was so cold (-15F, -50 windchill) that despite all the begging the dogs did not get me any further than the back deck.  To be honest, though, I was intimidated by the numbers and didn't try that hard.  

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