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far too many astonishing things in one place
The Specola Vaticana is the accumulation ground for all the Vatican's natural history-related things. Such as the print of Taurus Littrow signed by Gene Cernan and presented to the Pope that was found by one of the Jesuits on the floor of a closet ( Read more... ) -
I met the Pope today
Which possibly requires a word of explanation ( Read more... ) -
The things we write
I just found myself writing this phrase as part of a completely serious and technical paragraph.
"Natural smiles are thicker, while artificially induced smiles are thin and line-like."
It's that kind of evening.
Project paraphernalia: 32/75 allowable pages, 44 pages by the count. -
One of these days I shall use this for its rightful purpose
And at this moment, its rightful purpose is to distract me from the Assignment of Doom. I am in rather a melodramatic mood. It is brought on by a page of squiggles that ends without resolution, and features the slow dissection of a harmonic oscillator potential ( Read more... ) -
Scott Base
Good flight down - smooth, turbulence-free, and most of all no boomerang. Started seeing pack ice off the coast a remarkably large distance from any actual piece of continent, though the crew said it had receded quite a lot from last week. Got to have a look at the view from the cockpit of the C17, where they have nice big windows, thanks to the ( Read more... ) -
Antarctica (try again tomorrow)
An absolutely lovely excursion to Hanmer Springs on Friday on Canterbury's quasi-anniversary holiday. Thank you ever so much mpj17 and M and J for arranging a secret surprise trip. And there are even hydroslides there ( Read more... ) -
Exams end! Parties! Mercury!
Hmmm...much has happened in the last little while. Not least the End of Exams, which was followed by a 2.3 day Mountain Safety First Aid Course, which was followed by a sleep until 4 pm the next day ( Read more... ) -
And I am so fond of seafood, too
Please let them be wrong. Please.
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061030/full/061030-10.html
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Goro Miyazake's movie does well in Japan
I know Ursula Le Guin wasn't happy with this latest interpretation of Earthsea, but I hope we can see it here before 2009. I just want to see some actual Earthsea dragons...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/movies/15solo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin -
I bet they got rid of the beige
http://www.space.com/news/061012_cs_iss_mcc.html
I've been in there. There's something good about them continuing to use a place with so much history.