User Profile
Add Friend
Track User
Send Message
Send V-Gift
Back off Man, I'm a Scientist
Stranger than we CAN imagine
Created on 2000-05-16 19:21:10 (#3241), last updated 2009-07-13
6,614 comments received, 4,458 comments posted
Permanent Account, previously an Early Adopter
2,880 Journal Entries, 61 Tags, 71 Memories, 300+ ScrapBook Files, 0 Virtual Gifts, 35 Userpics
Basic Info| Name: | Bram Boroson, Master of Subtle Ways and Straight |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1967-12-13 |
| Location: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Website: | http://www.bramboroson.com |
BioI'm an itinerant scientist working in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studying X-ray emission from elliptical galaxies. I was an astronomy instructor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Before that, I was a postdoc in X-ray astrophysics at MIT. I've also taught at The Claremont Colleges in California, The College of Wooster in Ohio, and I've done postdoctoral research at NASA and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I went to grad school in Boulder, CO and college at Oberlin, OH.
My favorite of my journal entries:
First journal entry
Disclaimer
Philosophy
Anthropic principle
Anthropic principle 2
Ethics
Politics
Opinion of Iraq invasion
Einstein: radical
Resistance: futile?
Sex
Antiabortion terrorism
Relationships
Theory of love
Dancing
Right-handed bitches
Noodling at ManRay
Standing dance
Misc.
Hippie commune
Heroes of creativity
Recommended sites:
Scientific
www.arxiv.org: preprint server
ADS: astronomical papers (recent ones require subscription)
Astronomy Picture of the Day: students should go here daily
Misc.
www.metafilter.com: timely group blog and discussion
Wikipedia, the user-created encyclopedia
Political
Matthew Yglesias's blog
Democratic Underground
Huffingtonpost.com, left political blog
LiveJournal
ljbook.com: turn your LJ into a book
ljsearch.net: search LiveJournal
Who added or left your LJ friends list, and when
Physics blogs
Cosmic Variance
Lubos Motl, pro-string theory nutjob
Peter Woit, anti-string theory moonbat
John Baez's This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
My favorite of my journal entries:
First journal entry
Disclaimer
Philosophy
Anthropic principle
Anthropic principle 2
Ethics
Politics
Opinion of Iraq invasion
Einstein: radical
Resistance: futile?
Sex
Antiabortion terrorism
Relationships
Theory of love
Dancing
Right-handed bitches
Noodling at ManRay
Standing dance
Misc.
Hippie commune
Heroes of creativity
Recommended sites:
Scientific
www.arxiv.org: preprint server
ADS: astronomical papers (recent ones require subscription)
Astronomy Picture of the Day: students should go here daily
Misc.
www.metafilter.com: timely group blog and discussion
Wikipedia, the user-created encyclopedia
Political
Matthew Yglesias's blog
Democratic Underground
Huffingtonpost.com, left political blog
LiveJournal
ljbook.com: turn your LJ into a book
ljsearch.net: search LiveJournal
Who added or left your LJ friends list, and when
Physics blogs
Cosmic Variance
Lubos Motl, pro-string theory nutjob
Peter Woit, anti-string theory moonbat
John Baez's This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
ConnectInterests (136):
agnosticism, al gore, albert einstein, art, astronomy, astrophysics, atheism, bach, barack obama, beethoven, bertrand russell, biking, black holes, brian eno, buddhism, calvin and hobbes, carl sagan, cats, cellular automata, chandra x-ray observatory, classical music, co-ops, comedy, conlon nancarrow, conversation, cooking, cosmology, curiosity, daniel pinkwater, david byrne, eighties music, epicureanism, epicurus, ethiopian food, eugene ionesco, eugene mirman, fitness, franz kafka, friends, gary larson, general relativity, glenn gould, gnosticism, green tea, greg egan, habaneros, hercules x-1, hiking, humor, ice cream, ideas, indian food, infinite, infinity, information, intelligence, isaac bashevis singer, italian food, italo calvino, james joyce, kristin hersh, kronos quartet, kurt godel, leonard cohen, lewis carroll, literature, livejournal, logic, lucretius, mac os x, manray, marc chagall, math, mathematica, mc hawking, milorad pavic, modernism, monty python, movies, mozart, music, neutron stars, nks, oberlin college, obscurity, olaf stapledon, paradox, paradoxes, paul auster, philosophy, physics, piano, poetry, politics, programming, prokofiev, quantum gravity, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, radiohead, reading, relaxation, relaxing, remedios varo, research, satire, science, shakespeare, spin networks, spinoza, stand-up comedy, stanislaw lem, stars, stephen jay gould, superstring theory, sushi, talking, talking heads, teaching, telescopes, the baffler, the beatles, the bianchi identities, thinking, thomas henry huxley, throwing muses, travel, trivalent networks, ulysses, vegetarianism, walking, william blake, wittgenstein, writing, zen, ∞
External Services:
 | bram@livejournal.com | |
 | BramBoro |  |
 | BramBoro |
Schools:
Glen Rock High School - Glen Rock, NJ (1979 - 1985)Oberlin College - Oberlin, OH (1985 - 1989)
University of Colorado - Boulder - Boulder, CO (1989 - 1995)
Friends [View Entries] Friends (66):
alienghic, art_freak, auriam, bram, chanaleh, csn, dabroots, de_horror_vacui, dr_nebula, drx, e_e_g, eideteker, elliptic, elthar, esquire, evan, ex_muzer409, frausensei, glass_half_full, gmalivuk, gustavolacerda, heraclitus, hippie1025, hopeforyou, hyperina, idontwanttoknow, ijon, jennyn, jjael, jodawi, kily, kitty_scarboro, kocie, kunde_yidang, kytty, ladytetsu, leora, maddr, msandromeda, nebraska_slakes, nibot, nibot_lab, nomi, pbrane, phantom_mom, pr1ss, prairiesong, reme, saltyrose, sbtorpey, schemingreader, sebab, silverhawk, solri, stef_tm, stilettofem, techstep, thechairmanmeow, theryk, tri_blog, tully_monster, vladgladbag, warhol, warren_gilbert, winters_chill, womanhattan
Communities [View Entries] Watching (8):
Feeds [View Entries]
