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Ethan Siegel is a theoretical astrophysicist who currently teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. You can learn about him, contact him, or just enjoy the site.
April 8th @ 7PM -- premiere of the short film "Dark Matter", starring me, at Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR!
January 30, 2010
Category: Education
Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider! -George Carlin Over at The Onion, I found this article about science on television, and I laughed too hard to not reproduce...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 2:09 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2010
Category: Spaceflight
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot Yesterday, President Obama delivered his first State of the Union...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 8:47 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2010
Category: Astronomy
Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Oh, this would be so much easier if I wasn't color-blind! -Donkey, from Shrek Earlier this week, I introduced you to the Red Controversy, the observations recorded around...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 8:28 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 25, 2010
Category: Astronomy
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. -Jules Feiffer Last semester, I was teaching my introduction...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 8:56 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2010
Category: Astronomy
There are plenty of examples in the music world where a cover of a song is strikingly different from the original and still interesting. Take the song You Spin Me Round, which cracked the top 5 all over Europe and...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 12:41 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 22, 2010
Category: Physics
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 2:10 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 20, 2010
Category: Astronomy
I'm always happy to receive questions from those of you interested enough to ask them, and every once in a while one of them feels just right to write up an article about it. Today's comes from Brad Walker, who...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 2:30 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 18, 2010
Category: big bang
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 9:51 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 17, 2010
Category: Random Stuff
Yes, these three ingredients mixed together amused me more than anything else that happened this week. Don't know what I'm talking about? American Idol -- kicking off Season 9 -- gave us Pants on the Ground, a song written and...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 1:42 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 15, 2010
Category: Dark Energy
This is what science is all about; getting thrown a curveball by Nature and plunging in to find out what's going on. -Andy Albrecht Imagine waking up in the morning and heading out into the sand dunes. They never look...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 10:08 PM • 86 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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