We've talked about Queen guitarist Brian May's penchant for one-sided flame wars
before; the frizzy-haired fretman has used his online pulpit to take on MySpace imposters and music critics he disagrees with. His aggressive online style must have piqued someone's interest at the New York
Times, because May, who studied interplanetary dust at the graduate level before Queen hit it big, is one of the contributors to the
NYT's brand-new astronomy blog,
Across The Universe. Even though it's only one post old, we're adding it to our RSS feed, in the hopes that May will take on the role of provocateur by either calling a rival astronomer "a nasty, grubby, spotty, unusually ignorant 15 year old creep," or saying that he'll
"apply a fist or two" to anyone who questions the idea that the universe is accelerating because of antigravitational forces.
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Perhaps in celebration of guitarist Brian May finally publishing his doctoral thesis after all these years, Queen + Paul Rodgers—the Bad Company-vocalist-augmented version of the classic pomp-rock outfit—have decided to call their forthcoming album The Cosmos Rocks. (Sadly, there's no exclamation point in the title.) Looking at this sketch of May's thesis makes me wonder if the album, which comes out next month, is going to draw on inspiration close to home:
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Guitarist Brian May will submit his doctoral thesis, "Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud," to the astrophysics department at Imperial College London within the next two weeks—more than 30 years after he abandoned his degreee to form Queen. Will his degree make him more inclined to rekindle 
