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Boulder windstorm continues

January 26, 2008 – 9:46 am

It was like being rocked to sleep last night… ALL night… and still today. Good thing I’m not prone to motion sickness.

Courtesy National Center for Atmospheric Research
Notice the difference in scale (vertical axis) from the chart I published last night. Oh yes, the wind is kicking up today! Hang on!

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Just a little windy…

January 25, 2008 – 8:23 pm

In Boulder today:

Courtesy National Center for Atmospheric Research

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Matching Science to Sci-Fi: Where’s a Good Tool?

August 27, 2007 – 2:48 pm

San Diego Supercomputer Services

One way to envision dark matter; sci fi stories are another.

This probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but I’m a major science fiction junkie. I always have been. Forget space operas and epic Arthurian fantasies cloaked in spacesuits — I want the hardcore sci-fi. Where the science or speculative reality [...]

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