Everybody knows

Cohen.

Solar eclipse

From the APOD.

Take five

Brubeck

Stolen Moments

Oliver Nelson.

Memphis Blues Again

Kiko Veneno covering Dylan.

University of the streets

Complutense is holding classes outside the classrooms today. Find your nearest location.

Odi et Amo

Elizaveta.

Cosmic web stripping

An interesting idea to reconcile dwarf galaxy numbers around the Milky Way (arXiv:1211.0536).

Smells like content

The books.

Like the wind

Depedro.

Vanilla

SM-like Higgs or moving in that direction. 

Desperately seeking SUSY

Rumors about the latest LHC findings in Kyoto. Appears to be in line with SM predictions.

Pulsar Prospects with CTA

We have posted our forecast for pulsar studies with CTA.

Puerto

Calexico plays Madrid.

EBL

Latest EBL measurement from Fermi.

Lilac

Cinematic Orchestra.

CTA The Movie

A recent movie for CTA.

Letters

Where is the back of the envelope in this email?.

In Me Own Words

Eric Idle you made me laugh. 

31

Dispersion

Posted some thoughts on innovation and proposal selection (arXiv:1210.5450).

Earth like in Alpha Centauri

Nice little planet in Alpha Centauri B.

Wilco, Etc.

Playing in Madrid.

Ever Fallen in Love

Nouvelle Vague.

Ye Ye

Daphni/Caribou

Lions

The Features.

Aurora en Pekin

Marc Ribot and the Postizos.

Day after Tomorrow

Tom Waits.

Space Oddity

Sputnik 2012 - 1957 = 55. Bowie.

Little Lion Man

Mumford and Sons.

Ballad of a Politician

Regina Spektor.

FAST

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) being constructed in China looks truly remarkable.

Young Americans

Bowie.

Gone with the Limb

Two preprints cast doubt on the reality of the 130-GeV gamma-ray excess found by Fermi. Most likely the signature is connected to Earth limb photons (arXiv:1209.4548)  and (arXiv:1209.4562)

Freedom and Its Owner

Kings of Convenience.

Machine Learning from Fermi

We have just posted a recently accepted article discussing the application of machine-learning algorithms to Fermi AGN (arXiv:1209.4359).

z=9.6

Courtesy of gravitational lensing.

It's Raining

Irma Thomas.

Horizons

LTJ Bukem.

Beauty

Staring at a beautiful Fermi image.

Waveforms

Django Django.

Just the Way you Are

Listening to this played by a full marching band in the streets of old Delft. Eerie.

Pulsars and PWNe with CTA

We have posted a new paper on astro-ph (arXiv:1209.0357).

Eastwooding

Empty Chairs.  Don McLean.

Dancing

Los Campesinos.

Top 10^500 Reasons

Tom Banks easily wins best title of the week.

The Dreamer

Tallest Man on Earth.

Surveys with CTA

We have posted a new preprint (arXiv:1208.5686).

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

Going with a theme here. Blind Willie Johnson.

Dark Matter and Fundamental Physics with CTA

We have just posted a new preprint (arXiv:1208.5356).

Kaw-Liga

Hank Williams and Moonrise Kingdom.

Sloan Flight Through

Really cool SDSS animation.

Little Drop of Poison

Mr. Tom Waits.

Chariots

Closing the shop.

Till the Sun Turns Black

Ray LaMontagne.

Dark Knight Falters

Just posted a preprint on the 130 GeV excess seen by Fermi (arXiv:1208.1693).

Back to Mars

Curiosity has landed!.

Adios Chavela

Chavela Vargas passes away. Huge loss.

Mack the knife

Closing 2 hectic weeks. Ruben Blades.

Remixed

Jose Gonzalez.

Research

Excellent counterpoints about the present and future of spanish research in the latest Nature issue (1, 2, 3)

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

In honor of Higgs. Johnny Cash covering Dylan.

Independence Higgs

A Higgs has been found. Mass 125.3 +/- 0.6 Gev at 4.9 sigma, coming in at 0.8 +/- 0.2 SM.

Rock, paper, scissors

Winning every time.

Redemption Song

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros covering Bob Marley.

Higgs Hunt

News on the CERN Higgs search are expected on July 4th.

Summertime

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

Impossible Germany

Wilco.

One More Dollar

Gillian Welch.

arXiv title of the day

Care and feeding of frogs (arXiv:1206.3972). Astrophysics of propeller moonlets, not biology. 

Time

Tom Waits.

Oldest cave art

Uranium-thorium dating shows that the Altamira cave paintings might go back 40,800 years. While the Altamira cave is closed to the public. There are similar caves nearby that are worth a visit. Humbling.

Windmills

Barbara Lewis from Stax.

NuSTAR

Congratulations to the NuSTAR team for a successful launch. Nice probe of the 5-80 keV energy window.

Happy Birthday Fermi

The Fermi Observatory celebrates 4 years in orbit.

A Change is Gonna Come

Aretha Franklin

Higgs in space?

Latest take on the intriguing excess detected by Fermi between 110 GeV to 140 GeV.

Fahrenheit 451

Very sad to hear about Ray Bradbury's passing. Brilliant writer.

The Wilhelm Scream

The Bamboos feat. Megan Washington covering James Blake.

We need to talk about keVins

Recent paper gets the price for best particle name since quarks (arXiv:1205.0551).  Remains to be seen if Warm Dark Matter "keVins" can save the day.

Venus transit

Nice video of the Venus transit from Cairns (Australia).

Repurposed

Ex-spy telescope might fly as dark energy satellite. Interesting development.

Monday

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker

Rescue

Another week in the edge.

Milkdromeda

Nice simulation of the night sky following  the approach of  M31 and our Galaxy. Interesting way to bring extragalactic science to us in a billion years.

Gibbous

Caetano Veloso covering Simon Diaz.

Decoding Tomatoes

The Tomato Genome Consortium has decoded the 31,760 genes in a tomato.

Home

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.

And Let Me

Ruben and Willie.

Bubbles and jets

A possible jet-like feature embedded within the Fermi  gamma-ray bubbles.

I Wish I Was the Moon

Neko Case.

The Ship Song

Nick Cave.

130 GeVs

The latest from the purported Fermi excess at 130 GeV.

Just Breathe

Willie.

Machine Learning

Just released the results from Sibyl our machine learning application to gamma-ray populations.

Masada

John Zorn jamming at the defunct Tonic (1999). Probably there's an Abercrombie & Fitch standing there now.

Ships in the Rain

Lanterns on the lake.

Toubkal

Reached summit in Morocco.  Nice view from the top.

Mind Eraser

The Black Keys.

Luckiest

Magnetic Fields play Madrid.

JUICE

ESA has picked the JUICE mission over ATHENA (X rays) and NGO (gravitational waves). It is set to investigate "habitability" in three of Jupiter's moons (Callisto, Europa and Ganymede). Stay tuned.

Scream

What? $120 million?. Get yourself a ticket to Oslo and see it for yourself.

Enterprise

The Space Shuttle Enterprise on a flyby of New York piggybacking on a 747.  Very cool.

Home again

Michael Kiwanuka.

Danse Carribe

Andrew Bird.

One of these things first

Nick Drake.

Canta Canta

Martinho Da Vila.

Save ATHENA

Plans to fund the next-generation X-ray observatory ATHENA have dimmed a little based on the latest recommendation by the Science Advisory Committee at ESA. If you want to support the mission please sign the petition to reconsider before May 2nd.

Center of gravity

Yo La Tengo.

Mining Song

Fit to end the week, Josh Ritter.

Exodus

Research cuts in Spain.

Handouts in the rain

Richie Havens.

Meet the Mets

First loss of the seasons for the beloved New York Mets. Hopefully it's just a fluke...

Boat behind

Kings of Convenience.

Chinese Translation

M. Ward.

Quicksort

Through the grapevine.

Comet

The Shins.

ICARUS

The latest results from ICARUS seem to put to rest the superluminal neutrino claim from OPERA.

NYC

Be yourself no matter what they say.

WISE

WISE releases its full sky IR survey.

Perec

Pure genius.

We Added it Up

Flying neutrinos. My Brightest Diamond.

Basin Street Blues

Louis A.

Fastest no longer

Rumors that the faster-than-light measurements by OPERA might have been flawed. There is a lesson here: if you are going to unravel physics be extra careful.

The stars are indifferent to astronomy

Latest from Nada Surf.

Coauthor with a Nobel

As of last year, I am co-author of two articles with a Nobel Prize winner here and there. None other than Brian Schmidt.

Things we do

Nils Krogh.

Dim

A very relevant article about the current research landscape in Spain.

Covers

Klaus & Kinski. Not the original.

New week

Aretha Franklin.

Let it be me

Ray LaMontagne.

To c or not to c, that is the question

Interesting column about collaboration/competition in Nature this week. Apparently Max Planck once said "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it"

Complexity

Jorge Drexler.

Postcard from Stockholm

A good friend sends along a nice postcard from Stockholm. -10 degrees.

Life of Brian

Monty Python. Genius.

New Mona Lisa

Nice finding by people at Madrid's Prado Museum. It never hurts to look at the archives.

Look around the corner

Quantic et al.

Into the West

Calexico.

AGN Forecasts

Our work on AGNs prospects with CTA has been posted on the arXiv.

Fermi and CTA

This proceeding took a while to come out, but it finally did. Discussion on how Fermi observations can help predict the TeV sky. You can read it here.

Got to

Charlotte Gainsburg.

Galaxy clusters in gamma

2012 opens with a preprint reporting a possible Fermi detection of extended emission from Virgo, Fornax, and Coma. With a dark matter interpretation to boot. We'll have to wait if the Fermi team has a final say on this. You can read the whole thing here.