Jul 30 2007
Today, the linux world has a new member. A student with whom I work received a linux laptop today, a great little machine from System 76 [1]. In celebration of the open-source goodness of linux, I list a few of my favorite applications and plugins for linux and open-source software.
OpenOffice.org 2.0: MUUUUUUUUCH better than OpenOffice [...]
Jul 29 2007
At one of the first Republican Presidential candidate debates, three of the contenders raised their hands when asked if they do not believe in evolution. These were Tom Tancredo, a Congressman from Colorado, Senator Sam Brownback, and former Governor Mike Huckabee. Since then, they’ve been clarifying their position [1]. This is not a surprise – [...]
Jul 29 2007
The mad rush to the summer conferences is almost over, and while I am still trying to wrap up the research projects I’ve been working on for many months, I am thinking ahead to other projects that I’d like to start in the autumn. The BaBar experiment offers many opportunities to study the building blocks [...]
Jul 27 2007
I finally had a chance this week to listen to the Senate testimony of Dr. James Holsinger, the President’s choice for Surgeon General. It’s taken me a few days to digest and form some impressions. I’ll try to communicate them here.
My most global observation is that Holsinger stands for nothing, except maybe that kids shouldn’t [...]
Jul 16 2007
As Jodi and I discussed on our podcast this Sunday [1], deadlines and time pressures make people nuts. In physics, this is the kooky season, as the big conferences – EPS (European Physical Society), SUSY07, and Lepton-Photon ‘07 approach. Over the next 1.5 months, thousands of physicists from across the globe will converge in Europe [...]
Jul 14 2007
It wasn’t on C-SPAN, but I found it from capitolhearings.com on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee website:
http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2007_07_12/2007_07_12.html
More to follow, I assume…
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Jul 12 2007
If anyone can find Dr. Holsinger’s testimony in front of the Senate, I’d appreciate you dropping me a note (post a comment). I can’t find it on C-SPAN, but maybe it’s just not uploaded yet…?
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Jul 10 2007
With Surgeon General Carmona’s departure from the Bush administration, it’s time for the President to do what he does best: appoint qualified people for high-ranking positions in our Executive Branch. I’d say that the President has done a heckuva job so far.
The current position that is open is the nation’s physician, the Surgeon General. It’s [...]
Jul 10 2007
This is going to make me sound like the total nerd that I am, but here we go: I grew up with a deep-seated admiration for Dr. C. Everett Koop. Who is that? He was the only member of the U.S. government that I knew, besides the president, when I was in grade school. He [...]
Jul 10 2007
In all fields of research which operate at both the frontier of understanding and the interface with politics, there are vocal skeptics. Human-induced global climate change is surely the most current of these. While U.S. public opinion about the ability of humans on climate has shifted in support of the overwhelming scientific evidence, there are [...]
Chirp, a microblog Going Up Alleys The Perils of the Ice Queen
