NASA has renamed GLAST to “Fermi”, in honour of you know who. The map on the left, taken from the GLAST, I mean Fermi, website, is based on the first 95 minutes of observation.

Check out the new logo (and stay tuned) at
http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/

If you haven’t seen it yet, there’s an amazing video on youtube where Fermi talks (in italian, minute 0:52) about the Varenna school
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSpw0O1zqFU&NR=1

The European Commission has performed a country-by-country study on the remuneration of european researchers in the public and private sectors, and compared it against the situation of researchers in other countries (Australia, China, India , Japan and the United States), as well as against the remuneration schemes of other similar professions in each country. The results are extremely interesting, and make you want to go do your research in Switzerland…

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/pdf/final_report.pdf

An amazing graphic design, and WALL-E, the new Pixar movie, is
“The dusty cityscape shows remnants of a civilization: an empty bank, a cratered warehouse mall, tattered billboards for colas and travel agencies, all bearing the logo of Buy-N-Large. TOO MUCH TRASH–EARTH COVERED reads an old headline, and we note that some of the skyscrapers are made of compacted trash cubes. The planet has become one huge junkyard, as if all humanity were a rock band that had made a shambles of a hotel room, then just strolled out. The only remaining sign of organic life on Earth is that unkillable little bugger, a cockroach.