Elizabeth Silber and Western’s meteor physics infrasound group are helping with the research on the Windsor Hum.
There will be a report on this research on Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet, tonight, Monday, March 18, at 7:00pm.
If you missed it, here is a link to the video.
Melanie Wright is presently doing outreach work in the arctic. She is a student of Wayne Hocking.
You can follow Melanie’s adventures on her blog.
It is well known to faculty members that the relatives of students tend to become ill and/or die much more frequently during exam and midterm season than at other times of the year. I was delighted to find a serious (?) statisitcal analysis of this phenomenon here:
http://www.math.toronto.edu/mpugh/DeadGrandmother.pdf
The data clearly indicate that the likelihood of a student’s relatives dying during exam time is strongly correlated with the student’s grade. One conclusion of this paper is that relatives of students worry themselves to death over their loved ones’ academic progress. The study recommends, among other things, that only orphans be allowed to attend universities. Unfortunately, the study is a bit out of date (1990), but I bet things haven’t changed much in the last twenty years.
Ray Jayawardhana will be the Guest of Honour at the RASC meeting on March 15. As most people may already know, Ray is one of Canada’s best-known astronomers, and perhaps even qualifies as a science celebrity. He will give a talk about his specialty, astrobiology. His new book is titled “Strange New Worlds”. HIs web site is http://www.rayjay.net/
Canada Geese on the roof of the Western Science Building on March 7, 2013.
