No offence to the Chief Rabbi (and I am no fan of Corbyn), but this will be worse for the Jews than a Labour government.
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Other student feedback includes an excellent comparison to Jeff Goldblum and the less excellent “Astro=confusion ☹️”.
I really shouldn’t have ordered a new 15” MacBook Pro back in July.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-introduces-16-inch-macbook-pro-the-worlds-best-pro-notebook
https://marco.org/2019/11/13/mbp16
https://daringfireball.net/2019/11/16-inchmacbookprofirstimpressions
Best response (in full) to my request for midterm feedback from my students.
The Hubble constant: a mystery that keeps getting bigger – Science – The Guardian
— featuring Daniel Mortlock from @ImperialAstro.
Proud to have achieved a “personal worst” after too little training and two small kids’ worth of regular sleep. But I finished. #RoyalParksHalf 🏃🏻♂️
Our four-year old insists that cowboys and cowgirls greet each other with “ni hao, pardner!”
Abseiling outside my 10th-floor window. There is no ledge.
I’ve got a long (4+ hrs so far) wait at “Setting up…” during my macOS Catalina install, like others.
Question: has anyone w/this problem had it successfully finish, eventually, or is a reboot actually necessary?
Congrats to Peebles, Mayor & Queloz on the 2019 Physics Nobel “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe & Earth’s place in the cosmos”. Jim Peebles is a physics hero, helping us understand the statistics and physics of the Universe.
New Open Journal of Astrophysics paper — Hotinli, Kamionkowski & Jaffe, “The search for anisotropy in the gravitational-wave background with pulsar-timing arrays”.
@help I am seeing a weird error when I check for updates (see attached). I promise that the app is just in the standard /Applications folder.
RIP Daniel Johnston.
Unfortunately, even most Brexit “deals” would also restrict freedom of movement and so also cut the UK out of future ERC programs.
“Second thoughts” implies “thoughts”, which just seems unlikely.
RIP David Berman. The Silver Jews and Purple Mountains frontman dies at 52. Very sad — my wife and I bonded over his music when we first met (and still do).
I remember when NASA was sci-fi, not retro.
Housing and transport for four.
Canal du midi
Thirty years ago today, I woke up before dawn in NYC to head downtown with @disquiet and listen to Sun Ra and Don Cherry celebrate the summer solstice at the southern tip of Manhattan.
I signed the contract. Now I have to write the damned thing.
Shin Egashira’s “Double Globe” (2019), riffing on Alfred Jarry’s Practical Construction of the Time Machine (1899), at Betts Project, London.
100 years ago today, by observing an eclipse in the Southern Hemisphere, Arthur Eddington and others tested Einstein’s General Relativity theory.
Congratulations to our students for finishing the Imperial Astrophysics exam (and to us for making it through without having made any mistakes). Next up: marking…
Excellent Planck swag: an original backup data DVD.
Planck launch, 10 years ago this week.
Commuting across London five days a week to nursery (day care) with my two girls, one in a buggy (stroller), another walking, is the most stressful thing I’ve ever done.
I just got my student tutorial evaluations, and scored very well, averaging somewhere between “agree” and “strongly agree” in all categories: good feedback, answers to questions, and preparation. Unfortunately, only 5 (of 40) students bothered to respond.
Congratulations to Nick Kaiser & Joe Silk for the 2019 Gruber Cosmology Prize, “for their transformational work on cosmological structure formation & dark matter”. I’m honoured to have worked with (and, long ago, been hired by) both of them!