One of my favorite radio programs, “To the Best of Our Knowledge”:http://wpr.org/book/, had a neat program on the “gourmet, the history, and the health of caffeine (and its primary mode of injection into the human bloodstream, coffee!)”:http://wpr.org/book/041212b.html.
Yearly Archives: 2005
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Wowsers. “Harvard is making a funded effort to gather more data about the origin of life in the Universe.”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401070.html I’m not a big fan about how this Washington Post article begins, however: “Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to […]
As reported this week by University of Maryland physicist Robert Park in his “What’s New”:http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu, ABS News appears to have lost it’s rocker: 2. CREATIONISM: ABC NEWS AND GETTING THE DINOSAURS ON NOAH’S ARK. Earlier this year, WN asked a rhetorical question, “Is ABC News nuts?” http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN05/wn021105.html. There is new […]
The marathon training continues – for Jodi, of course. I’m just along for the ride. Today, Jodi had her 16 mile run. I biked along with her again, refilling water when necessary. The first thing that happened on her run today was that her water bottle, apparently ripe with soap […]
May of you are likely frequent visitors to “solidgoldrold.com”:http://solidgoldrold.com, a website for sexy people meant to enliven and enrich the lives of those who are not sexy. I thought it might be useful to provide a “between the lines” guide (AKA “idiot’s guide”) for the introduction on the webpage. greetings […]
I’ve had the pleasure and the pain of being a BaBar reviewer for the past year on an analysis of the rare process b->sγ. This analysis has been in preparation for years, and believe it or not the analysts (and the review committee) worked on this thing pretty much continuously […]
Jodi’s marathon training continues. She cranked it up to 15 miles today. We got up later than we wanted – closer to 06:30 – but made it to the Sawyer Trail by 7. Jodi’s been doing roughly 10-minute miles, though she shaved a total of 3 minutes off her entire […]
Earlier this week, President Bush apparently weighed in on the whole “teaching of non-science in the science classroom” debate. As “reported by the New York Times”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/politics/03bush.html?hp&ex=1123041600&en=c1600f3f547f7dc7&ei=5094&partner=homepage, in a meeting with Texas reporters the President expressed that he felt both sides should be taught. I’m gonna have to “side with Bob […]
This week was a very exciting week, both for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (“SLAC”:http://www.slac.stanford.edu), where I do my research, and for me personally. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, a member of the U.S. Cabinet and head of the U.S. Department of Energy, visited SLAC to learn more about the […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]