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26 July 2010
Trailer for Phil Plait's Bad Universe
My good friend (and forum co-admin) Phil Plait has been working on a super secret project for a few months. But now the project has been revealed in all its glory… it's a television show called "Bad Universe". Phil made the announcement a couple of days ago, but had to remove the video for technical [...]
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26 July 2010
Universe Today… Redesigned
Nancy and I thought Universe Today was getting a little long in the tooth – its design was so 2008 – so we updated it. Hurray! The goal here was simplicity, so we've cleaned things up, threw things out that didn't really matter any more, and tried to give it a hip 2010 look. Of [...]
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20 March 2010
The Periodic Table of Science Bloggers
David Bradley is a first-class science writer from the UK, who writes with a chemistry slant at his blog Sciencebase. He's also an interesting guy to follow on Twitter, and coined the term "Scientwists." David also must be incredibly creative (or have more time on his hands than I could ever imagine) [...]
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25 February 2010
This Week's astro-ph Preprints: Jean Tate's Best Pick
It goes by the super-catchy (not!) title "A Catalog of MIPSGAL Disk and Ring Sources". I chose it, over 213 competitors, because it's pure astronomy, and because it's something you don't need a PhD to be able to do, or even a BSc. Oh, and also because Don Mizuno and co-authors may have found two, [...]
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10 February 2010
We Moved the Universe Today
Just to let you know, I’ve moved Universe Today to a new server today. Everything seems to be working, but I’m sure there are still going to be problems (there are always problems). I’m hoping this should make the site a lot faster and more responsive. If you notice something misbehaving, please email me at [...]
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22 January 2010
Nancy Atkinson's Blog… Lives
Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that our Universe Today senior editor, Nancy "The Space Encyclopedia" Atkinson has her own blog. She's been twittering and blogging here, but now she'll have another outlet for all that space news. Check it out and add her to your RSS feeds and blogrolls. The Nancy Atkinson [...]
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21 January 2010
Misbehaving Mobile Edition
Hey everyone, I updated the design of Universe Today to support mobile devices, but it sounds like it was a little overaggressive and displayed the mobile version to regular browsers. I've stripped it back so it should be displaying to iPods, iPhones and Android browsers right now. If you're seeing the mobile edition and don't [...]
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19 October 2009
My Dad's Treehouse
I know this has nothing to do with space exploration, but my Dad posted a video of his trip up and down the spiral staircase he built around the outside of a tree on his property (I grew on up Hornby Island, BC). The staircase has 99 stairs and goes up for about 75 feet [...]
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14 June 2009
Nancy Sings the Praises of the Mars Global Surveyor
Sure, I love the Mars Global Surveyor, who doesn’t? But Universe Today minstrel Nancy Atkinson has put her heartfelt feelings to song in today’s episode of 365 Days of Astronomy podcast. Seriously, Nancy wrote a song, and performed it for the podcast. Of course, this is the second time Nancy has performed a song for [...]
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28 May 2009
Universe Today is Hiring… a Researcher
Universe Today has a new position open for a researcher, and we were wondering if anyone out there on the Internets is interested in applying. We’re looking for a researcher who can help support the blogging team to find space and astronomy news stories and aggregate them together. This means tracking thousands of RSS feeds, watching [...]
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26 May 2009
Miles O’Brian is Hubble Blogging Over at True/Slant
I just got an email out of the blue from former CNN anchor Miles O’Brian letting me know about a recent blog post at True/Slant about the recent repair of the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s a great article, go read it and then dig back through the archives. I think the first article is here. When [...]
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25 May 2009
Discovery Discovers Ian O’Neill
You might have heard through the celestial grape vine that Universe Today correspondent Ian O’Neill has been tagged to lead the space news team over at the Discovery Channel’s space blog network. So if you’re wondering why there aren’t many O’Neill articles over here, or at his own website Astroengine.com, that’s because he writing (and [...]
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24 April 2009
Comments: The Crackdown
I’m sure you all knew this was coming. I enabled comments on Universe Today about 6 months ago, and it was great to have everyone’s feedback. But now people are abusing the system, being rude to each other and advertising their personal theories, so it’s time to crack down. I’m going to implement some new [...]
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15 April 2009
Woowoo Ads on Universe Today
Hey everyone, I’ve noticed there’s a Twitterstorm going on out there over the kinds of ads showing up on Universe Today. You know the ones for 2012, and strange theories about how Einstein was wrong. These are the contextual ads provided by Google Adsense, and without them, Universe Today would be a shadow of its [...]
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23 March 2009
Universe Today Turns 10
Hey everyone, I just wanted to inform you of a little anniversary. I started up Universe Today exactly 10 years ago today, on March 23rd, 1999. Since very few of you know the actual story of Universe Today, I thought I'd regale you with it on this 10-year anniversary. I was living in Vancouver at [...]
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