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The Human Petri Dish

I almost always get a cold after the December BaBar collaboration meeting. It’s a combination of stress and exposure to hacking and coughing international colleagues. It also serves as a reminder of the fallibility of the human form, the susceptibility to the most minute parasite wishing to use my cells […]

The Human Petri Dish

The Nobel Prize Makes a Great Tree Ornament

Today is Dec. 10 (at least, in the United States) – the day the Nobel Prizes are awarded (“http://nobelprize.org/”:http://nobelprize.org/). This day marks the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, a man made wealthy by his dangerous work on the development of dynamite. He established the prize to recognize outstanding […]

The Nobel Prize Makes a Great Tree Ornament

Netlights are lame

Jodi and I like to take the long way home in the winter. We go through neighborhoods that surround our usual destinations, looking for well-decorated houses. With Christmas in just a few weeks, people in California have done all kinds of crazy things to decorate their lawns and homes. This […]

Netlights are lame

That’s Science, Folks

Some weeks, it just doesn’t pay to think about some topics. When I returned from Thanksgiving break on Monday morning, I did so only to find an alarming e-mail in my inbox. The e-mail, from a close colleague of mine, relayed the fact that our competitor experiment, Belle, had completed […]

That’s Science, Folks

On the formation of nitro-oxy spheroids in a aureal visco-matrix of petrocanola

This Thanksgiving, Jodi and I were pretty damned sick of traveling [TAOMPH358]. However, one of the students in my group was co-hosting a Thanksgiving turkey fry at his place. Jodi and I gladly accepted the invitation, and knew we were in for a fun at-home holiday. Jodi did some baking […]

On the formation of nitro-oxy spheroids in a aureal visco-matrix …

The ITER Model

The international linear collider will be the most powerful, most precise probe of the universe ever constructed on the Earth. The Large Hadron Collider, currently in the final stages of construction, will crack open the Terascale. Most physicists believe, based on knowing where our current theory of nature fails to […]

The ITER Model

Blogging from Ubuntu

This past weekend, I completed the construction of my new death star. At its heart is a pentium 4 dual core processor, which I am *itching* to take for a spin with “ROOT”:http://root.cern.ch and g++ – in particular, I want to clock a cold build of ROOT. To do anything […]

Blogging from Ubuntu

How do we know that dark energy is the same as the cosmological constant?

I’ve been picked on for watching Gilmore Girls. I’ve also been picked on for watching “Angel” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. In fact, I once mocked a good friend of mine for doing just that. But seemingly stupid TV can actually hide many nuggets of great writing and acting. “Buffy” […]

How do we know that dark energy is the same …

Travel Sick

Too much flying. Too much up and down, and sitting on runways 25th in line. Too much fried food, and fast food, and food that comes in plastic. Too much bitter before lunch, and sweet after dinner. Too much driving, too much going left and getting lost. Travel sick.

Travel Sick

Munschausen by Proxy was Funny When I Was a Kid…

After the treat of a moon over New York City, I found myself comfortable and cheery at my childhood home in Killingworth, CT. I had the pleasure of Saturday and Sunday night with my parents, catching up on all the political gossip with mom and watching the monster of the […]

Munschausen by Proxy was Funny When I Was a Kid…

Evolution in Pennsylvania

About a year ago, I discovered the book “It Takes a Family” by Senator Rick Santorum. I commented on this book’s views on the scientific theories of both evolution and the big bang, as well as its attitudes toward a theory of multiple universes [TAOMPH96]. In short, I was unimpressed […]

Evolution in Pennsylvania

Moon over New York City

I am currently in Killingworth, CT, spending a very wonderful day with my mother and father. I arrived last night, after landing in Newark and driving to Connecticut. But,I digress. How did this trip begin? I was originally scheduled to give a seminar at Princeton, but it turns out that […]

Moon over New York City

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