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7 September 2011
The Latest and Best Symphony of Science
If I try to show my wife even the most basic equation her eyes glaze over, but she loves this. So do I. For Americans, the long-haired dude is Brian Cox formerly of a British rock band who did the best two series on astronomy and cosmology since Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. Cox is an Astrophysicist with CERN. They aired on the BBC in the past two years and you …
X-Class Flare on the Sun
We should hear more from the NASA solar physics folks tomorrow on how much of this was directed toward Earth, and what effects it will have.