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Rockets and DNA

Posted by brownpau on 2013-04-15. No comments.

I’ve recently been selected to do two science things: see a rocket launch, and get my DNA analyzed.

Recent Reading

Posted by brownpau on 2013-03-22. No comments.

“Sell Out,” a story by Simon Rich: Part One, Two, Three, Four. (New Yorker) DuckTales invented a new animated wonderland — that quickly disappeared. (Onion AV Club) The extraordinary science of addictive junk food. (NYT) Your fat has a brain. Seriously. And it’s trying to kill you. (Outside Online) Sunk: The Incredible Truth About the […]

Leaving US News

Posted by brownpau on 2013-03-18. No comments.

Today was my last day at US News & World Report, just a month shy of my sixth year.

Google Reader Shutting Down

Posted by brownpau on 2013-03-13. No comments.

Google Reader is shutting down effective July, 2013. I use Google Reader everyday multiple times per day to keep up with webcomics, news, technology, lolcats, and the internet in general, and shifting to an online life without it will be a difficult transition. (I barely use Google Plus at all.) There are many alternatives, and […]

LoC Open House

Posted by brownpau on 2013-02-20. No comments.

Library of Congress had a Main Reading Room Open House event on President’s Day, so I dropped by to check it out. I got these panoramas of the Main Reading Room and the Great Hall: …while Human Understanding looked down from The Dome: The Main Reading Room was crowded with people all interested in seeing […]

Chelyabinsk Meteor

Posted by brownpau on 2013-02-15. No comments.

A meteor (or bolide, the term for a bright, exploding fireball) exploded in the sky over Russia, with a bright flash of light and multiple loud bangs seen and heard in Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains. The shockwave injured people and caused light damage to structures in the city. Since dashboard cameras are so prevalent […]

Recent Reading

Posted by brownpau on 2013-02-02. No comments.

Subcompact Publishing. Predictions and proposals for the fresh new field of internet-distributed portable-device publications, of which Marco Arment’s The Magazine is a prime example. Google’s Lost Social Network. I am not on board with the term “sharebros,” but I still use Google Reader, and have found Google Plus to be mostly bitter disappointment. America’s Real […]

NASA HQ Open House

Posted by brownpau on 2013-01-23. No comments.

Courtesy yatesc, I now have a photo on the cover of a NASA publication — specifically this shot of Discovery, used for “Toward a History of the Space Shuttle: An Annotated Bibliography Part 2, 1992–2011.” On the Friday before the 2013 Inauguration, NASA HQ had an Open House event in DC, and I was on […]

BWI-EWR

Posted by brownpau on 2012-12-29. No comments.

By some quirk of airfare pricing, an early morning United Express (Expressjet, formerly Continental Express) plane ticket from BWI to Newark Airport turned out cheaper than Amtrak this Christmas, so we took the flight to visit Amy’s family in New Jersey. The flight turned out to be a mistake which we will not repeat again.

iPad mini

Posted by brownpau on 2012-12-19. No comments.

(Buy an iPad mini just like mine on Amazon!) While in Norfolk last month I dropped by MacArthur Center Apple Store to see the just-launched iPad mini. The store was bustling, and staff told me they had quickly sold out of all but the 64GB stock. I held a demo unit in my hand, and […]