Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
More intelligent people looking silly.
More intelligent people looking silly for a seminar in Ondřejov. Now that seminar season is over, maybe I can get back to whatever the heck it was I was doing before it all started...
Thursday, 8 May 2014
A bunch of intelligent people looking very silly
Yesterday's seminar in Cardiff : The Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey : Science with a lonely smurf and a talking moose.
To be repeated next week in Ondrejov, Czech Republic.
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The Bunny Rabbit of Death
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