by Richard Easther | Mar 21, 2013 | Cosmology
RELOAD FOR UPDATES [Lo-tech live blogging!] THE DAY AFTER: t work, digesting the Planck data. The commentary below ran a bit technical; once I have my own thoughts together I will write them down… 12:49 AM NZST oo distracted to update the...
by Richard Easther | Mar 20, 2013 | Cosmology
In 1964 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were working for AT&T — Ma Bell, the then-monolithic US telephone company. Nowadays you can pick up satellite signals with a TV dish the size of a frying pan. But the first communications...
by Richard Easther | Mar 15, 2013 | Academia
Earlier this week I posted a paper on the Arxiv (which is described here). The next morning I woke up to an email asking if my co-authors and I were interested in submitting our paper in a new, open...
by Richard Easther | Mar 14, 2013 | Astronomy, New Zealand, Personal
Astrophysicist Beatrice Tinsley (1941-1981) was once a leading candidate for the “Most Important New Zealand Scientist You’ve Never Heard Of Award”, but has been largely eliminated from consideration by a stage play, having a mountain named...
