Miscellaneous links


Here are a variety of links that don't easily fit somewhere else:

Music

Playing the clarinet

Scottish Sinfonia

History of science

Slipher and the discovery of galaxies and the expanding universe

Planck (1911), Nernst (1916): the discovery of zero-point energy and its application to the vacuum density.

Historical images of Edinburgh

Evolution of the city since 1693

Delobotomizing Mountain Lion

Setting up a MacBook under Mountain Lion, and restoring some of the scientific functionality that Apple seems determined to remove

A diatribe on typesetting

TEX, HTML, and all that

The ESA-ESO working group on Fundamental Cosmology

ESA-ESO cosmology report

IAU Commission 47 (Cosmology)

Commission 47 website

Divisional website