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To see the rest of my Launch Pad posts, click here. Man, I didn’t realize how long these were. I pasted the last one into word to check something and it was and a half pages long. The back of … Continue reading →

To see the rest of my Launch Pad posts, click here. Stephanie came up to me after the last lecture, and we discussed cultural construction of p-prim a little more. I feel more comfortable with her conclusions now; she says … Continue reading →

To read the rest of my Launch Pad posts, click here. Galileo was a typical astronomer/physicist who believed that if you just give people the facts, they’ll believe you. He had great facts and a beautiful story. What Galileo did … Continue reading →

To see the rest of my posts about Launch Pad, click here. Yesterday, I went home to sleep for a bit during the last lecture of the day. The perpetually chic and brilliant author Genevienve Valentine was kind enough to … Continue reading →

I have a bad cold and checked out of the day’s final lecture from Jim Verley on science education, STEM fields, and science fiction. Genevieve Valentine kindly wrote up some notes which I’ll put online as time permits. I wanted … Continue reading →

To see more of my posts on Launch Pad, click here. Note: The schedule had Kevin’s lecture today swapped with his lecture yesterday. Today is really space environment. Yesterday was actually gravity, newton, kepler, orbits. Mass in space: There is … Continue reading →

To see the rest of my launch pad posts, click here. Stars are the bread and butter of astronomers. They’re the building blocks of galaxies. They’re well-understood in the basics these days. You can go into the details, starting with … Continue reading →

Yesterday, we did two activities that were not conducive to laptop-taking and note-producing. One was a lab with Jim Verley on spectroscopy in which he gave us spectroscopes and had us look at argon, helium, hydrogen, and a few other … Continue reading →

To see the rest of my posts about Launch Pad, click here. If there’s one thing you learn in astronomy that’s fundamental, it’s energy. We’re going to learn about energy and about orbits which are dependent on the energy of … Continue reading →

To see the rest of these Launch Pad posts, click here. Ian Randal Strock was curious about how far away we’d have to be from the sun before it started to appear to be a point rather than a disk. … Continue reading →