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This one looks very interesting; from October 10th to the 24th this year the USA Science & Engineering Festival will take place in the Washington, D.C. area. Billing itself as the the country’s first national science festival, it already has over 500 organizations signed up to participate, and will end with a two day Expo [...]

A very nice image capture sequence video presented by an Astrophysicist I trust on a news channel I don’t… thanks to Comcast Dot Net for the source video for this presentation, and The Hubblesite in the US and Space Telescope in Europe for the science behind it.

As it often does at this time of year, it will be raining rocks tonight and tomorrow morning, during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. It should be good viewing everywhere without a lot of cloud cover, since it will be a moonless night. This is the main event, but not the complete show; [...]

One of the more interesting panels at Comic-Con this year was about good and bad science in science fiction TV and Movies. This is the third year I know of this panel has been presented, and they made some great points, as you can see for yourself.

Yes, this is a geek post; deal with it! One of the major results the various Mars orbiters and rovers have been trying to work out is whether or not the red planet has ever harbored life, and one of the preconditions of life is a water supply. At least our kind of carbon based [...]

In wide release the rather bloody Repo Men gives everyone something to think about this weekend. An excellent cast and a great premise, this one should be a favorite among the adrenalin junkies (that includes me). In more limited release, Hubble 3D is showing up at IMAX theaters in museums across the country. As more [...]

This time around I would like to invite anyone who can get there to visit the new exhibit at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Actually, this museum has a lot of great exhibits and is really worth some time, but I am thinking specifically of the Science of Aliens presentation. Strangely enough, I [...]

If you were wondering if you were living in the future, I can assure you that you are. Here is still more evidence; an astronaut is tweeting his space pictures using TwitPic’s. Or perhaps the fact there are two Sci-Fi movies up for Best Picture this year? John Scalzi has some good thought on this [...]

Someone cobbled together an animation of what the CERN black hole might look like should this impossible event come to pass. Thanks to the Brain Release valve team for this one. And a nice Firefly music video Nathan Fillion tweeted this week…

I am gearing up for the New Year celebration tonight, so to keep it easy I thought I would pass along a couple of gems from AMNH, the American Museum of Natural History. But first, I need to send my congratulations to Action Flick Chick for winning this years Women of the Web competition.

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