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Farhad Manjoo thinks so. “Google Chrome is doomed!” sounds a bit apocalyptic to me. Everyone whom I’ve talked to who actually tries Google Chrome likes it very much.
CORRECTION: This is about the Chrome operating system, which is based on Ubuntu, not the browser. Thanks, bPer!
Sort of. Sites may disappear, but everything is archived somewhere.
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The Galaxy Zoo folks with their deep space survey have identified a new class of galaxies, the Green Pea galaxies.
At long last the ‘Peas’ have been submitted to MNRAS (The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,). The ‘Peas’ were discovered by users right here in Galaxy Zoo who noticed a strange class of small green galaxies at redshifts near z=0.2. A dedicated group of volunteered collected a sample of these galaxies. Then Kevin Schawinski found an astronomer (Carie [me :)]) to pull them together and look at them in detail.
The paper will be called “Galaxy Zoo: A new class of compact extremely star forming galaxies?” by Carolin Cardamone et al.
You can use a galaxy’s ID number to call up information about it. Here is one of the Green Peas.
Primordial Blog, was a nice, thoughtful blog mainly about daily life in a small Northern community, nature, fossils, science, the “teach creationism vs. evolution” controversy, and free thought. The blogger was a teacher and obviously proud of his students. I liked it because it was a way of learning about the North, but I wasn’t a regular reader. But I was a bit worried when I saw it mentioned as one of the top ten atheist blogs. And I was right to worry. It abruptly disappeared, totally, several days later. I guess a teacher has to worry about his reputation. He found out that he was living in a small-minded Northern community. Eventually a message trickled out, via Thinking for Free:
Note To All My Regular Readers
from Primordial Blog byI know a lot of my regular readers have been wondering what happened to this blog so I thought I would post a quick note of explanation.
My employer was not too happy to discover that I had been writing a blog and thought that my choice of topics reflected badly on them and on my position in the community. As I prefer receiving regular paychecks to blogging, we came to the agreement that it would be best if the blog was removed from the internet.
Thank you to all the kind people who have enjoyed my writing over the years and have stopped by to comment – it’s been great getting to know many of you, but now it is time for me to move on to other things. I’ll still stop by to visit the atheist blogosphere from time to time, though not under my own name.
I would have thought that the day was past when schools could dictate to teachers what they did for legal recreation.
Here’s a boost to research: more than half a million science papers online at arXiv. Their content description lists these subjects:
In other words, these are papers that deal with mathematics and with quantifying results.
It’s one of the ways in which the Web makes science much more accessible to us.
Hat tip to Blake Stacey at Science After Sunclipse.
