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The work journal of Peter Williams, updated sporadically. Some posts are for my reference only and won't make sense, not even to other astronomers.Tags
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- Qualified! about 3 hours ago from web
- (Diffusive shock acceleration of cosmic rays, Blandford-Znajek extraction of energy from black holes, relativistic synchrotron jets) 01:50:32 AM September 08, 2010 from web
- Just realized that Roger Blandford is personally responsible for about half of the key theories relating to my thesis 01:49:03 AM September 08, 2010 from web
- See, this is the sort of reason I get all worked up about intellectual property law: hot tub patent abuse! http://ur1.ca/1iz04 (via @tieguy) 02:00:09 AM September 07, 2010 from web
- Ah, right, THAT'S why it was so easy to park on campus this morning. 04:25:21 PM September 06, 2010 from web
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Figure of the Day: The Nature of Computing Power Increases
Far too few people in the community seem to be ready to act upon what this figure is telling us: Taken from Barsdell et. al on arxiv.
Too Many Scientists, Revisited
I thought I’d flag that the article about the oversupply of US PhDs that appeared in Scientific American in April and that I discussed has resurfaced in expanded form (same author, Beryl Lieff Benderly) in the Miller-McCune online magazine. The … Continue reading
“Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?”
Hot on the heels of Nature’s Astro2010 Decadal Review mini-panel not discussing career issues, I was pointed to an article in Scientific American that does just that: “Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?” by Beryl Lieff Benderly. The article’s … Continue reading
Decadal Review Tea-Leaf-Reading
I was a little surprised to find out from Casey Law that Nature recently ran a news piece about the astronomy Decadal Review process — and they didn’t just report on it, they actually got a group of prominent astronomers … Continue reading