Saturday, May 7, 2016

Science over the last four years

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It would seem that I haven't posted here in nearly four years. Life has been busy, and further, I find other social media outlets captur...
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Where does Mass Come From? Announcement July 4th, 2012!

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On July 4th in Melbourne, Australia, the 5000 physicists of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations from the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switz...
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Friday, July 1, 2011

First Mobile Post

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I haven't had time to post of late, but maybe if I write shorter more informal posts I'll write more of them. I'm amazed that fo...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Midterm Elections: Don't Reverse into a Ditch

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In the autumn of 2008, the economy was in free fall. Things were so bad that I was in favor of President Bush's actions to rescue the b...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Sometimes It's Just Hay

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Last December I wrote about rumors that an experiment called CDMS had found evidence for direct detection of the Dark Matter . I called my ...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Ground Zero Mosque and Religious Freedom

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It seems to me that there are two very different issues regarding the mosque (and cultural center). Whether the builders have the right to...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

French President Sarkozy Speech in Support of Basic Research

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[ September 2010 Note: I am appalled but what President Sarkozy has done of late regarding the Roma People, but I am leaving up my positive ...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Blog short-circuited by Twitter

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Apologies for not writing in a while. Life is busy, and when I have a quick idea or link I want to pass on, I simply issue a tweet and lea...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Searching for Unusual Hay in a Haystack: The Case of CDMS

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Over the past two weeks, rumors have swirled around the web that the CDMS collaboration had discovered particles of " dark matter ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Why the rising star of Sarah Palin troubles us

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This post is directed at fans of Sarah Palin (if there are any amongst my readers!). It may help you to understand why the rest of us are ...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Trip to Hawaii Big Island

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I attended a conference in Hawaii held jointly by an American and a Japanese physics society. Where else are you going to hold it? It was ...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Catcerto

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Mere words cannot describe this. Watch it. [thanks N.J.]
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

The Two Cultures

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Fifty years ago, C. P. Snow lamented in his famous lecture,  The Two Cultures , that there was a rift in understanding  between the science...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Report from the 'April meeting'

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Scientific conferences have personalities. They shift locations and take on the color of the locale, but the canvass of a given conference ...
Monday, February 16, 2009

Evolution in a Nutshell

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Sorry I haven't been writing much lately.  My personal life has been evolving.  More on that later.  But I would be remiss if I didn...