The first thing I noticed when I turned onto one of the main roads during my run was the lack of cars. The road should have been two thick streams of cars – people fleeing Sunday services to get to their favorite restaurants before everybody else. If people attended services […]
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Things people panic-buy (and stores seem to have run out of) when faced with a serious respiratory virus: Toilet paper Tissue Paper towels Cleaning supplies Oatmeal Fresh Beef Fresh Chicken Pasta Milk Fresh vegetables, including avocados Frozen vegetables Eggs Bread Yellow onions Bottled water Things people do not buy (still […]
Today was a good running day. It was a really good running day. I don’t know what it was, but I haven’t felt this good running in a long time.
My institution issued the policy against work-related international travel around 8pm Central European Time. I was at CERN when it happened. I sought guidance from higher-ups at my institution: if you don’t get on the first flight back to the U.S., you can’t come to campus for 14 days after […]
Jodi got invited by the DFW Tap Talks organization to give a short talk for the public. I tagged along for the event. I have always wanted to check out one of these “science on tap” talks, and I was not disappointed! It was a great night of 20 minute […]
Jodi and I are off to Milwaukee, via Chicago, for the weekend. For two hours this week, I had some peace. Flights have some practical uses; one is to firewall you from the nonsense so rampant in this world.
What if there were a place you could go and see bronze hands? Wait no longer. You should go and check out the Adrian E. Flatt, M.D., Hand Collection.
Thanks to a visit from an old friend (now Prof. Katherine Rawlins at the University of Alaska in Anchorage), we discovered the existence of and visited the National Video game Museum (NVM) last weekend. It was awesome. It was a tour of the computers and games of my youth; a […]
