http://www.mikebrotherton.com/ en-us 2007-11-25T14:01:10-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006473.html This is Jeremy Tolbert, Mike's site designer, posting. His RSS feed has moved to this location. Please update your reader accordingly.... JeremyT 2007-11-25T14:01:10-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006466.html So it's been a pretty busy semester so far, even though I've been teaching a repeat course and not yet starting the draft of the new novel. I did want to mention a few things now, although I probably won't... Science Fiction Mike 2007-11-18T22:03:03-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006451.html There's an easy answer to this question, and a better but more challenging answer. The easy answer is that when you're just poking around, you might discover something important. A number of very important discoveries have been made that... Science Mike 2007-11-13T01:37:47-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006446.html RUBY ROCKET -ILLUSION FEATURES... Science Fiction Mike 2007-11-12T02:15:45-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006439.html There was a time in the 1980s in comic books where superheroes had to be retooled to make them cooler, often by adding "dark" in front of their name. For example, Frank Miller's graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns helped... Science Mike 2007-11-09T01:30:39-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006438.html I really liked this article: SPACE.com -- SETI: Is It Worth It? This article mirrors my thoughts on basic research and a lot of the points made apply not to just SETI, but to astronomy in general. It behooves us... Science Mike 2007-11-08T23:26:24-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006423.html Here's one site about becoming a scientist: Cool Careers in Science What does it take to become a professional scientist? To get into graduate school, persevere, collect a PhD and land a job in the field? A lot of things,... Science Mike 2007-11-05T01:44:23-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006421.html SPACE.com -- The New History of Black Holes: 'Co-evolution' Dramatically Alters Dark Reputation This is an older article, not quite current, but still a valid description of the current thrust of research in my primary area of quasars. I'm getting... Science Mike 2007-11-02T00:02:39-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006413.html OK, while I was so busy with the party and the con, a few interesting and timely astronomy stories broke. SPACE.com -- Obscure Comet Brightens Suddenly Naked eye comets don't happen all that often (remember Hale-Bopp, or do we forget... Science Mike 2007-10-29T23:40:47-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006410.html I'm not referring to Furries, although I saw a few at Milehicon over the weekend. Just getting through three days of busy fun. Friday night was the huge Halloween party and I'll be posting photos in a day or two.... Personal Mike 2007-10-29T12:53:25-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006394.html The Right Brain vs Left Brain test | PerthNow "The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and... Science Mike 2007-10-24T09:42:19-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006392.html So I got another one of those emails today asking me to do some community service. Astronomical community service. It happens all the time and every professional astronomer is expected to contribute semi-regularly. Often the contribution is relatively minor,... Science Mike 2007-10-24T00:13:53-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006384.html Welcome to Beta Home in Community This is the beta test of the Scientific American community, which should be going gold next week as I understand it. I've posted my brief history of dark matter there, and will likely often... Science Mike 2007-10-22T08:32:33-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006379.html Scientific American is starting an online community which they want to be like a Myspace for science, and I'm going to be in on the ground floor in the beta test now. When the pages are set up and available,... Science Mike 2007-10-19T09:41:40-07:00 http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/006377.html The 10 Strangest (Real) Things in Space at Orbiting Frog OK, I'm going to have to do one of these now. I can get a lot stranger, and keep it real...... Science Mike 2007-10-18T11:41:29-07:00