In the last few weeks – and, indeed, years – I am more and more stuck by the fact that physicists are not wide-spread open-source consumers. I’ll give a key example, and then conclude. Microsoft Office. It’s offered for cheap to institutions, especially adademic ones, in order to get people […]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
18 posts
It was clear by 8:05 pm: Barack Obama was to be President. Our cottage erupted in joy, for a the first time it seemed that something went right in national politics in eight years. This is an opportunity not to be wasted. Fellow scientists, this is our chance to showcase […]
We’re going to be spending election night hosting friends at our place as we watch the returns come in. I’m making fondue, in honor or the French role in insuring the success of our revolution (and in honor of the awesomeness of cheese), Jodi made desserts, and we’ll see what […]
Did anybody see this? Yikes! http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/36458 Kidding. I had a lot of fun being interviewed for this review. It’s very surreal to be part of something like this. I’m just glad somebody finally asked about the title of the blog so I could explain it. It only took 684 posts!
The past five days have been interesting for the CDF experiment. First, their paper appeared on the arXiv [1] – a voluminous tome – which, if one was patient enough to read carefully, suggested that they have some excess of multi-muon events which appear to initiate far from the collision […]
Today was my favorite day of the year – the day we set our clocks back one hour. Sure, the sun now sets one hour earlier; on the other hand, it’s safer to jog on the road in the morning. Most important of all, it was a chance to steal […]