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Apollo Astronauts and Solar Radiation
The Apollo astronauts narrowly avoided serious health problems, and even death due to exposure to radiation from the Sun. Hereâs a plot of the approximateâ¦
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Thoughts on space, technology, and everything in between.
· Literature Hacking
Authorship in Astronomy
If youâve been following the recent series of posts about my data mining, then a) I apoligise and b) it just got better! The short story is that research inâ¦
· Literature Hacking
Astrochemistry Word Matrix
Just for fun, I took a list of molecules you can find in space and made a word matrix from it. The result shows the relationship between molecular species andâ¦
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More Astronomy Data Mining: It's Word-Matrix Time!
I have been exploring the terms used in the astronomical literature (see previous post), and have turned my attention to terms that seem to correlate with eachâ¦
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· Literature Hacking
Mining the Astronomical Literature
At .Astronomy 4 in Heidelberg, I began hacking on some natural language processing of the astronomical literature as part of my Hack Day project with Sarahâ¦
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#graphs
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#science
#statistics
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ITER: A Thermonuclear Reactor That Scientists Will Tidy Up When It's Done
Yesterday I toured the site of ITER, the nuclear fusion plant under construction near Cadarache, France. A multinational collaboration is pumping 150 billionâ¦
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.Astronomy 4 in Heidelberg
Sigh. The fourth .Astronomy conference has been and gone. This time last week I was in Heidelberg at the 50-person event that, Iâm not afraid to say, is theâ¦
· .Astronomy
.Astronomy 4
In 2008, in the midst of my PhD, I ran a conference called .Astronomy. The idea was to bring together all the other astronomers who were into the web andâ¦
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Transit of Venus 2012
[](http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040623.html) In June 2012 people all over the world will watch the planet Venus transit across the Sun. Venus will pass directly…
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Olbers' Paradox
Wendy Sadler (of Science Made Simple fame) was asking, on Facebook, what explanations people usually gave for Olbersâ Paradox. The slew of answers from severalâ¦
