Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures

And now I will leave you for the weekend with this little bit of skeptical humour brought to you by Tree Lobsters. I featured them once before on my site when I awarded one of their comics Geek Of The Week January 15, 2010. And now I present: #131 Safety Measures And the Secret Message for this one: Bumperbacking: The unsafe... 

If you missed the exciting announcement about SETIcon, let me fill you in. SETIcon is a dream come true! It will be held at the Hyatt Recency in Santa Clara from August 13 – 15, 2010 and will be a geekasmic celebration of Astronomy, SETI, Star Trek and science fiction in general. Tickets are dirt cheap as well,$20 a day... 

S. Beckwith (STScI), Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA Additional Processing: Robert Gendler If you are anything like me, then nothing will make you go “WOW!” quicker than awesome pictures of thing from space. Being a lover of music on top of this, it is no wonder I had a geekasm when I discovered... 

I do not know how many times I can say what an amazing time we live in without it becoming repetitious. I also do not know how many times I can point out that we are but a small fraction of the awe-inspiring Universe in which we inhabit. But when I see images such as the one below, I can’t help but to point it out and... 

Symphony of Science released a new video and song today – The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science). Featured in this song are 12 different scientists, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking,... 

I’m a geek who loves music. So when geekery and music are combined, I have asplosions of giddy and happy. Every now and then I come across a piece of music that I cannot get enough of and it happened once again this week. Paul R Potts (@paulrpotts) aka Common Lisp is participating in Masters of Song Fu 6. I already mentioned... 

One of my favourite blogs to read is Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog over at DISCOVERmagazine.com.  Not only is he one of my favourite champions, fighting against antivax, alt-med and woo in general, but he has his PhD in Astronomy and got to work on the Hubble Space Telescope. How bloody cool is that!?!? Plus, he is... 

Today’s NASA Image of the Day is stunning! (click image for full view) Image Credits: Hubble: NASA, ESA, and Q.D. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Spitzer: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech) This is an infrared picture of our Galaxy’s core taken with the... 

STS-51-L crew: (front row) Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair; (back row) Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik. 24 years ago today, one of the most memorable events to occur in my lifetime happened. Shortly after launch, at 11:38 a.m. EST on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger... 

Every once in awhile I come across some pretty awesome things that people make and sell on Etsy. Today is such a day. Head on over to Molecular Muse and start browsing some of the awesome jewelry, all inspired SCIENCE! Some of my favourites are: Creativity by Molecular Muse This beautiful necklace is called Creativity and rightly...