Keith’s note: Due to sequestration, civil servants at some agencies have sacrificed with mandatory furloughs.  NASA cut travel instead. Yet some NASA civil servants are accepting their portion of the agency’s sacrifice by traveling to a foreign resort at taxpayer expense. According to this GSFC web page, a conference titled “Explosive Transients: Lighthouses of the Universe” is being held 15-20 September 2013 in Santorini, Greece. The co-chairs of this conference […]