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What is really happening at the Fukushima nuclear power plants
See the MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub. Via this post by mdlbear, who also linked to this summary and warning about media hype. The summary dates from early yesterday, but the updates from MIT so far seem to be consistent with it.
Monday night Irish class, March 14, 2011
Coming to a head
Know Nukes
March Pale Ale
Encouraged by mia_mcdavid and carpe_noctum_93, and by discovering that there are two other brewers in my Irish class, I started another batch of beer.
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Dark Matter: Still needed
There was a recent media kerfuffle about MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics), an alternative physical theory that supposedly eliminates the need to have dark matter be a major part of the universe.
Monday night Irish Class, March 7, 2011
Irish Class, March 7, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 7ú lá Mí na Márta 2011
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An Sionnach agus an Charóg — “The Fox and the Crow”
Monday Night Irish Class, February 28, 2011
Spaceship Docking
the Orbiter Discovery approaching the International Space Station, as seen from the ground:
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 