Frank Sanders’ Blog
How to be humiliated by your iPod (or not)...
Thursday, July 26, 2007
I’m like America. I’ll admit to pretty much anything about myself, including embarrassing stuff, and then put it onto the Internet for the world to see. (America puts it all into The Simpsons.) The incident I’m about to relate concerns the fact that your iPod songs are a window (or at least a
Which is proportionately thicker: Earth’s crust or eggshell?
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
In May, while I was doing some dino-bone prospecting in Utah for the Denver Museum, I wondered one morning as I peeled a hard-boiled egg whether the eggshell was thicker or thinner, compared to the size of the egg, than the Earth’s crust is as compared to the size of the Earth. Here’s the answer.
Advice for college-bound science students
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Reflections of a Frontiers of Science Institute participant ( FSIer) almost thirty years later
Good morning. Not counting my brief visit here about a week ago, it’s been almost thirty years since I was at FSI in 1978. Back then, I looked like you all. I had hair. I couldn’t imagine that I would
My sense of humor: Laughing at the end of the world
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Years ago, when I gave a lecture on atomic bomb design and the dangers of nuclear terrorism to a political science class at CU Boulder, I learned later that at least one student later complained. The essence of the complaint was that I’d been making jokes about the end of the world as we know it.
The extraterrestrial statistics of hunting for a new girlfriend
Saturday, June 30, 2007
I’m hunting for a new girlfriend; the sooner I find a new one, the better. But I work in fields where there aren’t a lot of eligible single women. I’ll work out the statistics of finding eligible single women, using the same technique as an estimation of the number of civilizations in our galaxy.
Welcome to my blog: All the news that’s fit to tell for a life more (or less) examined.
Frankster’s Blog
Name: Frank Sanders
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Birthday: February
Status: Single.
Home territory: Colorado, USA
Employer: U.S. Government
Occupation: Scientist/engineer
School: Univ. of Colorado
Location: Boulder, CO
Quote: “Provando e riprovando” (Verify one and disprove the other.)
Also:
“Whatever it takes to get the job done”
New Reading: The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain by Neil Faulkner; Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World by Stephen O’Shea; and The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad.
Movies: Dr. Strangelove, Time Bandits, The Meaning of Life, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Cruel Intentions, Raising Arizona, Fandango
TV shows: The Simpsons, Family Guy, House, Futurama
Musicians: Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, The Beatles, Alan Parsons Project
Travel Destinations: Adak, Diego Garcia, London, Geneva, Moab, Santa Fe, the Cedar Mountain Formation (in a Utah desert)
Heroes: John Paul Stapp (see my Heroes page); Ben Franklin; Charles Darwin; Sergei Korolyov (or Korolev); Robert Goddard; Maj. Gen. Oliver Smith; Capt. Zebulon Pike
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