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Spent a good portion of this week trying to install PYRAF on my 64 bit windows 7 laptop. Of course, my laptop is set to dual boot into Ubuntu, but seeing as to how I rarely restart and boot into Ubuntu, I decided that its finally time to try out a virtual machine. I’ve finally succeeded, and here’s some documentation on the path I took.
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why an ex-particle physicist would even WANT to be a biologist is beyond me…
the unit circle clock…. it exists!
(via spaceandstuffidk)
Accuracy in Labeling — Supernovae
via biphenyl.org
Professor Brian Cox on the Hometime Show: Part 2.
Professor Brian Cox on the Hometime Show: Part 1.
The Aurora Australis, viewed by astronauts aboard the ISS, 356 km above the Indian Ocean on March 28th, 2010. (NASA/JSC)
Quantum Mechanics (QM) is fascinating. Why? Because it’s mind boggling as well as incredibly...