Cielos de Madrid

Cielos de Madrid goes live. Our latest effort for public outreach. Enjoy.
http://cielosdemadrid.com/

Moon in water

AKA Madrid. Underworld.

Rasta Claus

Via Tobago. Dreaming of the thatched hut at Pigeon Point.

Madrid at night

A picture of Madrid from last night. Still trying to put the finishing touches on this outreach project to broadcast a live picture of Madrid. Hopefully we'll go live soon.

Nightlite

Bonobo.

Lovely day

Bill Withers.

Don't get me wrong

The Pretenders.

What a difference a day makes

Dinah Washington to close the week.

From Pastel Blues

Nina Simone.

Mambo

Gustavo Dudamel and the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra playing Bernstein.

Maria Lando

From Peru, Susana Baca.

Heard

Security theater is the phrase of the year. Or is it of the decade.

Where to find dark matter?

Maybe at the end of the arrow. From a talk by Marla Geha.

London at night

Foggy London from the International Space Station. Full explanation here.

Sundown sindrome

Tame Impala.

Fika

Swedish for coffee break. Not an IKEA item. Although you could have a fika at IKEA.

I got a feeling

What happened to lyrics?. Lyrics, people, lyrics. Hey, but it's Friday so enjoy the karaoke.

Restore Sanity

Maybe this should be made into a universal celebration. Fiction trumps reality.

Mondo Bongo

Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros.

Still haven't found what I'm looking for

Fitting for the day.

Streets are ours

Richard Hawley and a favorite story.

Odessa

Caribou.

Tom's Diner

Suzanne Vega.

Tchaikovsky

Jascha Heifetz soloist.

Xiaobo

Think different.

Golden Lady

Jose Feliciano covering Stevie brazilian style.

Scribble

Back from the Underworld.

It's graphene!

This year's Nobel Prize for Physics. A follow-up to the Ig Nobel.

Overdrive

Bot'Ox.

Twitchy

Very nice work and story.

Boss tres bien

Quartette tres bien.

(i Believe in) Trvellin' light

Another B & S classic appropriate for today.

Write About Love

Latest by Belle and Sebastian (Long intro).

Crab flare

Turntable that is.

Llueve sobre mojado

Fito y Sabina.

Blowing in the wind

Amanece que no es poco. Oh, and yes that's Joan Baez.

Crab??

The Crab nebula is definitely the weird object of the week. Just when we thought we knew the answers...

Cliffhanger

Stranger than fiction.

Freedom and its owner

Kings of convenience.

Changing?

Dylan, Bob Dylan.

Millenium goals?

Saturday

The Clientele.

Flash crash

From the heavy neutrino to the flash crash. I wonder what's harder for a physicist on the. S.E.C.

RGB Moon

Latest from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). Dark blue are lunar maria.

I don't know

Literally. Amigos invisibles.

La vie en rose

Edith Piaf.

Tonada

Simón Díaz remix.

We no speak americano

One of those silly summer remixes that gets into your head.

TeV Forecasts

We have released a nifty tool to predict observations with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
http://cta.gae.ucm.es/
(you'll need the CTA collaboration password)

Down in Mexico

The Coasters.

Uno, dos, tres, catorce

Vertigo - U2

Thai funk

Petch Pohtaram - Nong Jeoy.

Cool Hand Luke

"What we’ve got here is failure to communicate." CHL

Storytelling

Brains are likely wired to tell and enjoy stories. So start imagining all the future stories that might happen in your life.

History of everything

Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons wins an Emmy. Not that it means much. but the guy does a good scientist impersonation.

CTA

Design concepts for CTA are out (http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3703). Still a lot of work ahead.

Friday on a desert island

Madrid is scorching and empty. Four Tet.

All delighted people

Sufjan Stevens.

ACTA

Latest Decadal survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics is out and highlights ACTA (CTA + AEGIS) as one of the priorities for the next decade. This is an important push for the new generation of ground-based gamma-ray facilities.

Amor platónico

Vnezuela's own Jóvenes y Sexys doing a cover.

New York City's Killing Me

Ray LaMontagne latest.

Ringy galaxies

Nice image of UV rings in early-type galaxies to close the week. Courtesy of GALEX.

Jet lagged

What's going?. I feel like 3 am at a karaoke in Tobago.

Cat power

Bowling.

We are the champions

OK, last one I promise.

Out of Africa

World cup is over.

Champions

One nil and we have a new world cup champion. Celebration will continue in Madrid today.

Transatlantic

Quantic.

Pa' Bailar

Bajofondo.

Planck

First map from Planck is out. Let's see if it can confirm the WMAP results.

The million dollar question

Grigory Perelman turns down the Millenium prize.

Caidos del cielo

From the soundtrack of an interesting play I went to see the other night.

100 days, 100 nights

SJ and the Dap-Kings.

Master and Commander

Rubén García Alia has successfully defended his master thesis on CTA predictions. He is off to ESTEC in Noordwijk, Holland.

A new doctor in town

Dr. Igor Oya has succesfully defended his PhD thesis. Off to a postdoc in Berlin this fall.

High road

Broken Bells.

Dance yrself clean

LCD Soundsystem

Final countdown

A week to go for Igor's thesis defense.

World cup

Angelique Kidjo kicks off the cup.

Keep it loose keep it tight

Amos Lee.

Me and Bobby McG

Janis Joplin.

The Rhythm of the Night

Claire Denis's style from Beau Travail.

London calling

The Clash.

Sleep

belle & sebastian.

Start wearing purple

GB plays Madrid tonight.

Say ain't so Joe

Money has gotten scarce.

Stolen art

Five paintings have been stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani, and Leger. A quick way to start a collection.

Musica ligera

Apparently Cerati had a mini stroke after a concert in Caracas. Hope he recovers soon. This is an oldie.

Watching windows

Literally

You shot me down

Nancy Sinatra.

The drosophila controversy

For those who played with flies in high school.

Exactement

Lyrics, lyrics

Kanellos

The protest dog.

For old friends

There is a trend here.

No one knows about persian cats

Indeed

UK

A possible way to end the gridlock. It's not a joke.

Buckets of rain

Cover by Vic Chestnut. No one should be left with health care bills to pay.

500

The Swift satellite reaches 500 bursts. Pretty cool.

Put it on my tab

Yessir.

Frightened rabbit

Swim until you can't see land.

Compton crash

Sometimes many years of hard work can be smahed in a minute. Hope that the Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) team can build and launch an even better experiment.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man

Bob Dylan - The Man in Me (The Big Lebowski version) from mue on Vimeo.

Zombie

Apparently Femi Kuti played Madrid last night. Here is Fela.

Immigration

Very odd immigration law passes in Arizona. I wonder what criteria they'll use to define criminal behavior. Anyone caught walking the Sonoran desert or suspected to be Mexican?

How not to do science (Sample 1)

If you want to be a good scientist do the opposite of this. Why do news organizations always fall into these traps?. Shouldn't they send someone to find out what's going in Zimbabwe?. Hey, the guy has a 1 in 32 chance of guessing right.

Thoughts

Need to develop collective leadership i.e. no one can take credit if many helped achieve the same goal.

Rain

Massive Attack.

The Lost World

Gran Sabana, Venezuela. Go there and climb Roraima. One of the
top hikes in the world.

Seashores of old Mexico

Merle Haggard.

Ipad

-How do you call an Ipad in Thailand?.
I(Pad) Thai

More ash

Latest from Eyjafjallajökull.

Nice meteor

Last night in Midwest, USA.

Doubts

What is the table equivalent of chairmanship?, tablemanship?.

Saona

A little Noro Morales to close the week.

Ash cloud

Moving around Iceland and the UK.

Happy 75

The Village Vanguard turns 75 this year. Hope it can hold its spot on 7th Ave, NY for years to come.

Magnetars

It turns out that a magnetar might be responsible for the financial crisis.

Stranger

Dr. Dog.

Bien querida

Y los astrofísicos del sol y las estrellas.

Pale blue eyes

Lou Reed & Velvet Underground.

Good morning Ohio

Latest from The National

New York mornings

No one is awake yet.

Timescales. II

Australopithecus sediba, the latest hominid, probably walked South Africa 2 million years ago.

Eclipsed by a disk

Nice result by acquaintances Ettore Pedretti/Nathalie Thureau who found that Epsilon Aurigae is eclipsed by a dusty disk. Infrared interferometry with six 1-meter telescopes.

Timescales

Art in Cave of Altamira, Spain 35,000-11,000 BC.

The Windmills of your Mind

Dorothy Ashby's harp remix.

Discoteca nacional

The latest from Clorofila/Nortec Collective.

Burn it blue

Caetano Veloso.

Hustle

By Tunng.

Gran Sabana

Not sure if Antoni Tapies got inspiration from the real one.

Tu Vuo Fa L'Americano

Volume 2

Latest from She & Him.

Eyjafjallajokull

Lava and ice. Quite a sight in Iceland.

Hard way

Latest from Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.

Ray

I remembered this one rewatching Groundhog day.

Equinox

Sparkle. Day will be longer tomorrow.

I envy the wind

Lila Downs' take on Lucinda Williams. Spring is here.

July flame

Laura Veirs.

Taken by trees

A new take on animal collective.

One

Yeasayer

Janglin

Magnetic zeros.

Move on up

The latest by Angelique Kidjo mainly covers.

Yoyoyo

Zebu Nation is the latest from Cumbancha Discovery. Hey, only a month of winter to go.

Good or bad

The latest by Julieta Venegas. Very poppy. But I've had a weakness for her accordion/piano playing skills ever since I saw her play at small gigs when she was first starting.

Feeding the world

Interesting article in Science talks about trying to feed a world with 9 billion people in 2050.

Everybody Talkin'

Harry Nilsson.

Gamma ray

By Beck.

Bring me home

Sade is back.

Blues run the game

Jackson C. Frank, Mr. Original.

Beasts

Wild Beasts that is.

Wrong

Overheard "If you are going to be wrong, be wrong and strong."

Beck & Gainsbourg

Heaven can wait.

The real problem with the LHC

Red + White

Pink noise by Kaki King.

La Palma

Just came back from a meeting in La Palma. If you are ever lost for a destination, this might just be the place for you.

Rafi

Tarantino indian style.

Norm

Funny bit by Norm Macdonald and Conan.

Fermi 1FGL

The first year Fermi catalog (1FGL) is out and it's overwhelming. 1451 sources out of which 690 are unassociated. Lots of work ahead.

Here comes the sun

Nina song to close this week. Help starts arriving to Haiti. Out of the ashes, a new day shall come.

Conan

Crazy stuff is going on over late-night shows in the US. Just wanted to show my support to Mr. quirky Conan O'Brien.

If you don't know me by now

Remembering Teddy Pendergrass.

Haiti

News today of a strong earthquake in Haiti. Last thing people there wanted to hear I am sure. There are a number of links if anyone wants to contribute for the recovery efforts here:
Haiti donations

No se nada

A good track for the day.

More Fermi pulsars

A number of groups have been looking at unidentified Fermi sources with radio telescopes and it has paid off. Most of the new identifications are associated with millisecond pulsars. Still need to do more work to find the radio quiet ones.

Mora Fermi pulsars

No pants, no subway

This past Saturday New York celebrated the annual No Pants! subway ride. A bit cold for it but then again pantless rides are probably not out of the ordinary during the over-humid New York summers.

The living road

Read this week that Lhasa de Sela had passed away just before midnight. First heard this album at a friend's place a few years ago. She'll be missed.

Hoy

Ulises Hadjis' Hoy appropriate for today. No pun intended.

Snowing in Madrid

Snowfall in Madrid as I write this.

All about the Keplers

The American Astronomical Society meeting is at full steam in Washington, DC. The Kepler mission has reported its first 5 planets. Still no Earth-sized examples, but it will fly until 2012. A lot could happen until then.