Unlike the above video, the best theory for what causes this type of supernova requires two white dwarfs instead of one.
In a nutshell, UC Berkeley astronomers happened upon some data that classified a supernova (later creatively named SN2002bj) discovered in 2002 as Type II, which turns out to be pretty common, and realized the brightness and duration were closer to read more »
This Tuesday, enjoy some free pizza on Memorial Glade courtesy of Caliber Magazine, which touts itself as “the most talked-about publication on campus.” Of course, the free food isn’t the main reason for the event. Just the primary reason.
But seriously, the description according to Facebook: read more »
It seems like the Lawrence Berkeley Lab is always getting in the news for something or other. Now, it’s for getting a pretty sweet cut out of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act pot—$7 million, to be vaguely precise. And this time the funding is for geothermal energy research.
“Now wait a minute, Clog,” you suspiciously ask. read more »
Add another Berkeleyan to the growing list of people winning prizes for being awesome. This time it’s Geoff Marcy, astronomy professor and planet hunter extraordinaire. Yes, that’s right, he freaking hunts god damn planets for a living. Planets. How’s that for a line on the good ol’ resumé?
Professor Marcy won this year’s Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization this time. We say “this time” as some may remember when he shared the million dollar read more »
The Clog was walking through Wheeler Hall (or Dwinelle, we can’t remember—they’re so similar) when it spotted a mightily-attractive poster concerning public higher education, albeit one with very little information.
It’s promoting an event titled “THE CRISIS of the PUBLIC UNIVERSITY” and seems to want to draw an audience based on name-recognition of the speakers—no mention of what anyone will be saying.
And the speakers, according to the poster, are read more »
Do you have amazing artwork no one will pay money to see? Do you still want to display your stuff, yet A) Don’t trust the wide, wide territory of the interwebs and B) Haven’t had any luck getting into local galleries?
Then now’s your opportunity. According to UCBLJ, the Art Students’ Union wants to set up a show for spring 2010 at the Worth Ryder gallery (in read more »
If you’re anything like us—which we’ll assume you are—you’ll be almost-literally-but-not-really-because-that-would-be-abuse-of-wording dying to go see a panel discussion on dark energy. AS IT SO HAPPENS, dear readers, you’re in luck!
Coincidentally, the Lawrence Berkeley Lab will be hosting just such a panel next Monday. Speakers include Saul Perlmutter, who heads the Supernova Cosmology Project, David Schlegel, the “principal investigator of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS),” and Alexie Leauthaud, a Chamberlain Fellow at the lab.
Where: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2015 Addison St. When: Monday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. Cost: FREE!
Image Source: Balakov under Creative Commons Dark Secrets: What Science Tells Us About the Hidden Universe [LBL]
If you didn’t know who Mark Yudof was a couple months ago, odds are you know who he is now. And if you didn’t know he was an avid and accomplished Tweetist (Tweeter?), boy have you been missing out.
But if you do know what’s up and are of the he-should-be-spending-all-his-time-focusing-on-UC philosophy, then this might not be your cup of tea.
The man’s latest excursion into the Twittersphere: (Warning: May cause mild anxiety for the aforementioned philosophers) read more »
A wise sage once said “it’s not that easy bein’ green.” And yet, this city’s all about being green. As such, Berkeley is participating in some sort of challenge/contest/thing where—as far as we’ve been able to determine—some “green” companies are sponsoring the challenge by giving away “prizes” to people who take “pictures” of themselves “doing” green things. Mayor Tom Bates is already on top of it: read more »
This Friday marks what could possibly be the most important of all hair-related holidays: Comb Your Hair Like Gavin Newsom Day! If you’re interested in participating, SFist reminds you that the Gav uses L’OréalStudio Line Total Control Clean Gel.
And if you’re not interested in pushing your hair’s helmet-of-cloudiness to the maximum, you can check out SF Weekly’s Flickr pool once the pictures start rolling in.
Image Source: thepartycow under Creative Commons
Excitement Builds as ‘Comb Your Hair Like Gavin Newsom Day’ Draws Near [SF Weekly]
Comb Your Hair Like Gavin Newsom Day, 10/9 [SFist]
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