Jul 31 2005
Jodi and I hit Borders Bookstore and Cafe last night. It’s one of those regular consumer things we do: go to a bookstore, browse, buy things we shouldn’t buy, and drink some caffeinated beverages and talk. We were scanning the new arrivals last night, when I noticed that Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) had a book [...]
Jul 30 2005
“Here’s a man who really knows science and who really knows government,” Specter said. “So it is a very, very profound change. It’s an earthquake.”
That’s a quote from Sen. Arlen Specter, concerning the shift in position on Federally funded stem cell research made by Senate majority leader, Sen. Bill Frist. Frist said this week that [...]
Jul 30 2005
What a week. Busy, busy, busy! Let’s start at the beginning.
BaBar is engrossed in its fifth run, which we aptly denote “Run 5″. A lot of things changed in the accelerator and detector when we shutdown for the 2004 upgrade last fall. It’s critical, given such changes, to validate the outpouring data by applying hard [...]
Jul 28 2005
There’s been a lot of hubbub lately about the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s nascent investigation into a very particular set of climate science. This science, conducted by Dr. Michael Mann and two colleagues (who have also been requested to present documents for this investigation), demonstrates that that average global temperature has risen in complete [...]
Jul 25 2005
I here reproduce the excerpt of Rep. Sherwood Boehlert’s (R-NY) letter to Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) regarding Barton’s initiation of a political inquiry into a scientific study of climate change. This excerpt is taken from “AIP FYI #112″:http://www.aip.org/fyi/2005/112.html.
From the FYI:
In response to these letters, House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) sent Barton [...]
Jul 23 2005
It’s about time. Applying “Google’s”:http://www.google.com search technology to the world of scholarly information has been a long time coming. I’ve use Google to search “The Arxiv”:http://www.arxiv.org (pronounced “Archive”), but now a ton of other information from beyond physics is available through http://scholar.google.com.
I’ll be adding this to my usual tools, the Arxiv and “SPIRES”:http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/.
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Jul 23 2005
The ants were coming in from some cracks in the step connecting our spare room – once a garage – to the main living room. I caulked the holes, sprayed the area, vacuumed the carpet with our steam cleaners, and… um… valiantly fought back the ant army leader using only Raid and a Lightsabre?
Ha ha! [...]
Jul 23 2005
War! Steve and Jodi’s cottage is crumbling under attacks by the ruthless
Ant swarm. There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere.
In a stunning move, the fiendish ant leader, General
Grievous, has swept into the cottage and kidnapped
a delicious morsal of food hidden out of sight on the floor.
As the Ant Army attempts to flee the [...]
Jul 23 2005
After Cardinal Schonborn’s recent NY Times essay, Lawrence Krauss from Case Western Reserver University sent a letter to the Pope, on nehalf of himself and several Catholic colleagues, asking for clarification on the Church’s position on the theory of evolution, and thus on the relationship between the scientific method and the Catholic church. “The text [...]
Jul 22 2005
“Science Friday discussed the recent authoring of letters by Rep. Barton to three climate scientists, requesting they submit their records for review by Barton and his colleagues”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4766641.
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