Mar 30 2008
After a week of traveling and reading and generally reminding myself of the joy of the world outside of SLAC, it’s time to return to my research. I set guidelines for this past week. No work-related e-mail. This was helped along by the fact that the place to which I traveled had very poor or [...]
Mar 29 2008
I just got my new U.S. passport today, after only sending the paperwork in about 1.5 weeks ago. Crazy. A little brochure came with the passport, its cover reading “With Your U.S. Passport, the World is Yours!”
I’m writing an open letter to the U.S. State Department in response to this present.
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Mar 29 2008
An article in today’s NY Times, forwarded to me by a friend, notes that the LHC may face a threat other than the realities of a slipping schedule when building a one-of-a-kind, frontier physics experiment: the law. That’s right! THE LAW. [1]
Specifically, a lawsuit brought in a Hawaiian court seeking to stop the turn on [...]
Mar 28 2008
It’s fun to see how friends and colleagues get around on the internet. Here’s a blog post by a friend of my colleague, Dan Hooper, describing the then upcoming trip to DC. Enjoy!
Madison Physicist/Musician Goes to Washington to Fight for Science
Here was the post-trip follow-up – nicely summarizes the frustration of this business:
Physicist goes to [...]
Mar 17 2008
It seems that every time WMAP releases a fresh analysis of its latest data, I learn something wholly new about the universe. Last week, WMAP released an analysis of five years of data [1]. The results are particularly interesting to me on one front – the cosmic neutrino background. On many other fronts, we have [...]
Mar 17 2008
There are some anecdotes from the Washington trip that bear repeating. I found them personally quite enlightening, so here I pass them along to you.
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Mar 17 2008
The press of the past few weeks has now officially caught up to me. While I am very much looking forward to returning to my research, I am also mentally and emotionally burned out. The last meeting of the trip was on Friday, late afternoon, at the Department of Energy building in Germantown, MD. The [...]
Mar 15 2008
This was among the most exhausting weeks of my entire life, and though it was painful in the planning and tiring in the execution, it was worth it. In the coming weeks, a number of us will be compiling a more complete version of what we learned. Here, I put down my own thoughts on [...]
Mar 11 2008
Today was a long, long day. Jodi and I got out of bed around 5:00, got ready and ate breakfast, just in time to gulp my coffee and pack the car for the trip to the airport. I spent the night in a fitful sleep, waking up about once an hour – I can’t lie, [...]
Mar 09 2008
This week is the annual SLUO trip to Washington. Again, we join forces with Fermilab and the U.S. LHC User Group to carry a common message about particle physics and the physical sciences to the Congress. I’ll try to keep a daily journal here about what I learn, without getting too much into details that [...]
Chirp, a microblog Going Up Alleys The Perils of the Ice Queen
