This morning, over my second cup of coffee, I found a weird little news item in my “science” feed on Yahoo! News. The article reported that the Ohio Buckeye tree might migrate north, into Michigan, as the average temperature in Ohio climbs [1]. This is terrible news. The Michigan BUCKEYES? […]
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When I was on vacation back in August, I spent 10 days with my parents. Over the course of this vacation, I discovered that my parents had been keeping extensive fuel economy records for their two vehicles. The data on one of them, a Dodge Stratus, went all the way […]
I had a conversation with a friend of mine at ICHEP, who sounded interested in doing the occasional guest post on my blog. It’s a new idea for me – I think of this as personal space in a glass house (careful with those rocks, folks). However, after 621 of […]
He could be sick. He could have a conflict. Or, a sign of the time. I’ll put it here, tea leaves for the bottom of your cup. From the ICHEP plenary talk schedule:
I’ve been running silent these past few weeks, getting ready for the ICHEP conference next week. However, a pair of headlines today was just too much to ignore. When I scanned the AP stories listed on Yahoo News, these caught my eye: Obama urges Germans to work with US to […]
With the primary season drawing to a close, I decided to try to subscribe to both John McCain’s and Barack Obama’s blogs tonight. I like to use the RSS feeds, since any open-source reader can use them. Obama was a snap; his RSS feed was right there at the top […]
My thoughts tonight will be with the many people in the path of Hurricane Dean as it makes landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
If anyone can find Dr. Holsinger’s testimony in front of the Senate, I’d appreciate you dropping me a note (post a comment). I can’t find it on C-SPAN, but maybe it’s just not uploaded yet…?
Well, we finally did it. After making some intro/outro music on Apple’s GarageBand, sitting down at the kitchen table, and talking into a microphone, Jodi and I have finally made our first podcast. You can get it from: http://twobodyproblem.cooleysekula.net/ You can subscribe (using Amarok, iTunes, or a similar program), get […]
It’s Friday night, and I’m at the lab. I feel like a real scientist again! What keeps me here on a Friday night? Well, there are several factors in this one. The first is that Jodi is at a detector workshop at Berkeley, and I’m supposed to pick her up […]
When Charles Darwin was a young man, he made a 5 year journey as ship’s Naturalist on the Beagle. During that journey, ideas that he had read about in books – biological and geological evolution – came to life. An earthquake on the western coast of South America, which raised […]
After months of putting it off, Jodi finally posted her extensive photo album from her and her sister’s trip to Ireland last October: http://jodi.cooleysekula.net/photos/ireland/ What an absolutely beautiful and diverse land. Powered by ScribeFire.