Case Histories: Whichever Episode It Was

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It came up in conversation

Am I too hard on New Scientist?

Emily Lakdawalla's "Eris and embargoes (or: don't fear Ingelfinger!)"

I didn't write about these interesting results before because Sicardy asked people not to. More specifically, he said that the work had been accepted for publication in the journal Nature, and that Nature had told him he could present the results at DPS only if he stated to the audience that they were under embargo and could not be reported on. He repeated this at the end of his talk. He was wrong, as it turns out; it was completely unnecessary to impose such restrictions.

This comment about Eris caught my eye:

Eris' unexpectedly small diameter but surprising brightness implies, Sicardy said, that it is possibly the second-brightest surface known in the solar system, after Enceladus; its albedo is very nearly 1.0. This is even brighter than freshly fallen snow (albedo 0.8) and way brighter than water ice clouds (0.55).

Things Elections Ontario turns out to have a procedure to deal with

Apparently I was so tired at the end of election day I forgot to sign my second time card....

Fear the Kraken!

DID A GIANT ARTISTIC SQUID HAUNT THE TRIASSIC!?!


Ha ha ha no.

Sad

Hell Pigs and Terror Birds overlapped in time but not space.

Today's minor epiphany

"Does not work well with others" should not lead to "and therefore should be team leader."