“It’s here!” Mandy came running into the house, waving a letter in the air. Levar looked up from reading the news and forced a smile. They’d been waiting for this day for months… hopeful for some good news, but mostly dreading it. Mandy plopped down on the couch next to […]
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Write your member of Congress today and tell them that making graduate tuition waivers count as part of taxable income will spell doom for higher education in STEM in the US and threaten the US STEM workforce. https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ Here is my letter to Congressmen Pete Sessions and Sam Johnson: Dear […]
This week Jodi and I left for Washington D.C. on Monday for an event at the Canadian Embassy on Tuesday night. She had been invited to attend an evening celebrating science in Canada, especially Nobel Prize-winner Art McDonald and projects at SNOLAB, that nation’s premiere underground science facility. In addition, […]
We zip through Oshkosh after a brief stop. Have to keep moving North. We have appointments to keep and still many hours left to this drive.
Sure, it is cloudy, but the weather is so pleasant. We are approaching Oshkosh on our trek north. I like the country out here. Very green and very open, dotted by farms and popping with flowers right now.
We begin the trek north for a family event weekend in Wisconsin. Of course, we begin this trip the way all trips north in Wisconsin should begin: stuck in Milwaukee traffic.
The summer was mostly filled with research, and, in fact, this made for a very productive summer. By the end of July, the physics analysis that I work on within the ATLAS Collaboration – the search for H->bb decay (Higgs decays to bottom quarks) – was presented publicly at the […]
As a physicist, I am fascinated by trying to quantify the world – to find the numbers that can represent what is going on in nature. People are hard to quantify most of the time, but trying to do so can be informative. Organizations like PolitiFact [1] offer a set […]
In our class on the Scientific Method, Profs. Cotton, Scalise, and I talk about “Weasel Words.” [1] These are a form of logical fallacy – specifically, of “equivocation,” wherein a word is used with vague and various definitions, leaving it to the listener to choose the definition that best suits […]
More information can be found in the BBC article below. Makes me wonder how creative people might cone together, inside and outside of Syria, to help move information in and out of the country, as happened in Egypt. Syria ‘cut off from the internet’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22446041
It is rare that life presents an opportunity to look back at old posts and say, “I told you so.” Back when Tim Tebow was a household name and “Tebow-mania” gripped the sporting nation, I took a look at his statistics, including how he measured against the great quarterback in […]
NSBP (BlackPhysicists):Preliminary investigation of instructor effects on gender gap in introductory physics http://t.co/l7NPMiuL #physics #education http://twitter.com/BlackPhysicists/status/224504 (Sent via Seesmic http://www.seesmic.com) http://t.co/l7NPMiuL This was posted on Google+…