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Einstein@Home is now live. (it's a BOINC-based project, like the newer seti@home).

Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations. Einstein@home is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X computers.

This first production run of Einstein@home carries out a search for pulsars over the entire sky, using the most sensitive 600 hours of data from LIGO's third science run, S3.

Bruce Allen, Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Einstein@home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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An interesting piece on an artist who has spent his life working in Northwest coast tribal forms (Tlingit) - and who is of Swedish and French Canadian ancestry. The reaction of the Tlingit tribe to his continuing use of their cultural icons?

He was adopted into the Tlingit.

I think one factor that helped was the the artist, Rich LaValle, never represented himself as Native, nor did he suggest that his artwork was Native-made. I'm sure treating his subject with respect didn't hurt, either.