Monday, December 19, 2011

Friday, December 16, 2011

Friday closing


Joan Baez singing Dylan.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Midweek


Good old Ray.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Expectations


Belle & Sebastian

125 GeV

Closing the week with rumors of a 3 sigma detection of the Higgs. More on that next Monday.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Dock of the bay


Still recovering from the meeting.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Over


CTA Madrid 2011 is history. See you in Amsterdam.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Gobble Gobble

Get your turkey today.

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Seems to be the word these days.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Music: Response


The Chemical Brothers.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Cavalleria Rusticana


Pietro Mascagni. Two masterpieces.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Imik Si Mik


Hindi Zahra.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Friday

Hard to caption what's going through the head of the European Central Bank. Wild guess: "6 more hours of trading, let's hope it doesn't fall apart".

Vain


Although inspired in part by a true incident (or maybe my previous blog entry), the following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event.

Cell phone airbags??

Tackling the important problems in the world. Move over famine and cancer, up next a TV remote with legs.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Never


Orbital's newest track.

Many rivers to cross


Jimmy Cliff.

Cosmic Cowboy Rides Again


The Time and Space Machine.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Oysters


Meshell Ndegeocello.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Madrid (Last night)



From the fisheye on our Physics roof. Go to:
http://cielosdemadrid.com/
for more.

Krugman

"This is the way the euro ends — not with a bang but with bunga bunga."

11/11/11


Panamericana Suite by Paquito.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Caravan


Jerry Gonzalez.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Friday

Like Paul Erdös turning coffee into science. Found out recently that I am Erdös Number: 6. I was neighbor's with Ed Spiegel (Erdös Number: 4) if that counts for anything.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

FACT

The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) has recorded its first events. Looks very promising.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Parallelograms


Appropriate for ongoing sky pixelation.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Soundtracks


Enter the Dragon by Lalo Schifrin.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Einstein and the Neutrinos


Inspiration for musicians.

Monday, October 24, 2011

The Art of Being Right

The last trick in Schopenhauer's debate principles: Become insulting, rude, as soon as you perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. Hey, there are 37 steps before that.

Amor Em Jacuma


Lucas Santtana.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Blossom Tree


Zara McFarlane.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Idiot of the week

Easy pick.. Stranger than fiction.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Lagrimas negras


Bebo, Colina & Cigala.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Bali

Buffetlibre - Bali Honeymoon by Buffetlibre
Closing the week.

MAGIC

Nice picture taken from the APOD.

Monday, October 10, 2011

ROSAT takes the plunge

ROSAT joins the incoming satellite of the year club. It was a big contributor to our knowledge of the 0.1-2 keV X-ray sky. Watch your head.

Crystalline


Bjork.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Video Games


Lana del Rey.

Lotus Flower


Radiohead remixed.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Estrela, Estrela


Gal Costa.

Jobs


I'll certainly miss Steve Jobs's creativity and attention to detail.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Noches de bodas


Congrats Igor y María Jesús.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Dark Energy

Perlmutter, Riess, & Schmidt claim this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.

Journey Inwards


Again Bukem.

Monday, October 3, 2011

ALMA


ALMA starts its early science with 1/3 (22 telescopes) of the full array. First image looks
impressive.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

After Hours


The Velvet Underground.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Phantom of the OPERA


Recycling a joke heard elsewhere. All over the news.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Ixtapa


Rodrigo & Gabriela.

Lekman


Bumping into backpackers...

Friday, September 23, 2011

Pete Kuzma


Radiohead meets soul. It's Friday.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Lullaby


Low.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Heads up

A piece of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) might be falling near your house by the end of the month. But with 510,072,000 square kilometers of surface area (of which 71% is water), the chances of it hitting someone are a bit exaggerated.

Willman 1 and its stars

Willman 1 is a puzzling object that seems to straddle the line between star cluster and dwarf galaxy. There are so few stars in the field that is hard to make out a galaxy visually. One of our PhD students, Daniel Nieto has marked some of the purported Willman 1 stars that show this point nicely.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Earth 2000


LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Sheena


Ramones redone. Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Zamba Malató


Thinking of Lima.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Just like honey


The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Solla Solla


It's wednesday.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Caridad


Salsa via Senegal.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Friday, July 15, 2011

Paquito


Bazinga.

Dark Matter Analytical Spectral Code (DAMASCO)

We have released an easy code/tool to generate dark matter spectra.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Minor Swing


Django.

2FGL

The second Fermi catalog is out.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

10-20-10


Generationals.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Sabana


Simon Diaz.

Monday, July 4, 2011

1812


Tchaikovsky.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Green Hornet


Al Hirt.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Rebel rouser


Duane Eddy.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

On fire

Wildfire approaches Los Alamos.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

East Harlem


Beirut.

On the edge

If you think your work is hard.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Just dropped in


Kenny Rogers & The First Edition.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Portable


Ruben Blades.

Friday, June 10, 2011

OmegaCAM



First images from the new OmegaCAM instrument in Chile.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Popcorn Andino


Chicha Libre.

Friday, June 3, 2011

New beat


Freitag with Toro y Moi.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Spoken


Gil Scott-Heron.

The Usual Supects


The alleged cucumber. Looks like the trail has gone cold.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Your arms around me


Jens Lekman. I was slicing an avocado and so forth...

Monday, May 30, 2011

Africa Caribe


Satarting a new week.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

70


Funky Tumbao.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Friday, May 6, 2011

Dustbowl


Пятница.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Friday, April 29, 2011

Viernes


Mexican Institute of Sound.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Lilac


Jeff Buckley.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Mountain

The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.


A very cool video in El Teide, Spain. A possible site for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Tuesday


Radiohead.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Chan Chan


Buena Vista Social Club.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

CTA Tenerife

Beautiful picture of one of the possible sites for CTA North. Read all the details here.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Monday, March 28, 2011

Last few hours

The New York Times goes behind a paywall in exactly 4.5 hours. Will it be goodbye or goodbuy?. I guess I'll have to start going here more often.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Whisky Spectrometer

Apparently spectroscopy will have a more practical application.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

West Side Story


Mambo Dutch style.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Nomo


Friday!.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

She's


Fyfe.

LIGO

Over at Living LIGO, there's a cool (and cruel) experiment for keeping an experimental team at the edge.

Monday, March 14, 2011

The Magic


Joan As Police Woman.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Friday


The Cure.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Prelude from Bach´s Cello Suite No. 1


Casals. Catch it if you can.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Friday, February 25, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Send in the clowns


Any similarity to actual events or characters is purely coincidental.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Dictator on his way out of the week

Not even close. Hopefully, better days lie ahead for Libya.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Bisbee Blue


Calexico.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

True grit


Iris DeMent.

Man versus Machine

Watson wins. Now the question is: What is dark matter?.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Pretty when it's new


Merle Haggard.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

White winter hymnal


Fleet Foxes.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Tick Tock


Miss Baby Sol.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Just like tom thumb's blues


Nina Simone's cover.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Done with you


First week back.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011