Stephen Hawking has re-thought his original position on black holes, and in the process lost a bet with another physicist, John Preskill.
The prize: an encyclopedia on baseball.
(The bet was for an encyclopedia of the winner’s choice. I think S.H. got off easy.)
I posted some stuff, but they’re not showing up!
Test…
Ah, there they are…I had managed to change the default from Publish to Draft, so they were saved away, just never showed up on the site. Probably when I was monkeying around with the phone blogging stuff.
A rap song that reads better in the original Latin.
Cute – the Incredible Hulk has a blog.
It’s Joanne’s 46th birthday today. For the next month or so, she’ll be a year older than me.
Happy Birthday Sweetie!
for taking second place in the New England Youth Triathlon Age 11-14 category.
(via s-t)
Somtimes clothing tags don’t say the same thing in every language.
Well, Joanne, Gabe and I got up and saw a piece of the Venus transit this morning. Even after Sousa’s ‘Transit of Venus March’, Damon didn’t wake up! Oh, well, he can catch it in eight years.
I tried taking some photos and a video through a welder’s glass, but the cameras just didn’t have the zoom or resolution to show anything worthwhile, so all we have are our memories (and a few mosquito bites!)
Here are some pictures of the transit from all over the world, and a link to some videos.
Or you might have to wait 113 years!
For us East Coasters, the transit will be in progress by the time we can see the sun – it’ll be starting at 1:13 AM our time, and ending at 7:25 AM. Sunrise in Worcester is 5:11 AM.
West Coasters won’t see this one at all, but don’t worry, they’ll have a better view of the 2012 transit, and they won’t have to get up early – that one’s in the evening.
DON’T LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN! Use #14 welding glass, or an indirect method.
Here’s NASA’s page about the transit.
The Ecotarium is having a SkyWatch sleepover!
The last one was 122 years ago, before movies were invented. Here’s a movie of the last transit. (How? Massachusetts (yay!) astronomer David Todd made 147 photographs of the last transit on glass plates. In 2003, some astronomers at the Lick Observatory turned those plates into a QuickTime movie.)
(via MetaFilter)
Now this looks really cool! A water pump powered by kids playing on one of those playground spinning rides.
(via kottke.org)
An interview with Jane Jacobs – she doesn’t think the web will necessarily have a negative impact on communities and neighborhoods.
(via ip)
Spammer Howard Carmack was sentenced to 3 1/2 to 7 years in jail for sending 850 million spams, using 343 illegal email accounts under false names. Last May, Earthlink won a $16 million dollar lawsuit against him!
One down, lots more to go!
We’re on a theme, here!
Congratulations to Damon who was selected to the Worcester Inter-High All Stars for soccer. He also got his Burncoat letter and three pins for his soccer season and two track seasons this year. And the Unsung Hero award for track!
He also managed to make it to three proms this month, without even bothering to go to school!
Oh, and he just got his driver’s license, so GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!
Good jaerb, Damon!
Burncoat senior Ron Brace, (I know him as a track guy, he won the Mass. shot put championships with a 56 foot throw), but he’s also a star football player – at least Boston College thinks so, they’re giving him a full scholarship! They’re not the only ones, apparently he’s had three other scholarship offers as well.
Congratulations, Ron!
(via st)
Josh Abraham takes author Lynne Truss to task over her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves. And rightly so!
Congratulations to Mike Videira, who was selected to the Parade All-America Boys Soccer Team!
Mike and Ben have played together on the FC Greater Boston Eagles (now Bolts), and the Boston Bulldogs Super-Y League team, and Mike is a phenomenal player, and a great guy, too.
Congratulations to Mike and the whole Videira clan!
Fellow Worcester blogger apraetor found this on the National Park Service site:
(via New Scientist)
Observations of X-rays in galaxy clusters made from NASA’s orbiting Chanrda telescope confirm that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Analysis of supernova explosions and patterns in the cosmic microwave background already pointed to this, and all three give indicate that 75% of the energy in the universe is of the repulsive type needed to make the universe expand.
Repulsive? Expanding? They couldn’t be talking about…naah! I’m on a diet!
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