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” […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What seems like a very long time ago, my family took a vacation. Vacations were a near rarity in my family – by which I mean the kind of textbook, campy Americana vacation depicted in movies. We spent lots of time at the beach, and plenty of time just hanging […]
Jodi and I have been working our asses off to prepare job applications. We’ve just finished the most grueling of them, and while largely this was a painful experience there was good, too. I learned a lot about what Jodi has accomplished since graduate school. This may sounds ridiculous – […]
Tonight’s Nova, which focused on the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, got me thinking back to Jodi’s graduate research. “Monster of the Milky Way”:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blackhole/ was a fun tour of the physics of black holes, the science behind their detection, and the road of discovery on the […]
I am lame. We established that a while ago [TAOMPH243]. Every now and then, I punch my name, or my domain name, into Google and Yahoo to see what turns up. Most recently, I’ve been curious to see if the changeover from cooleysekula.net to cooleysekula.net had taken in the search […]
I’ve had the privelege of participating in lobbying Congress about science for almost half a decade, and in that time I have seen scientists take more steps to raise their public profile. We have been graced by a number of opportunities to engage the public, and the government, about our […]
My dad is a chemistry teacher, and a chemist by training. Naturally, a son who wound up as a physicist (and a daughter who married a physicist) must be a great disappointment to such a proud man. I’m kidding, of course, except the part about my sister marrying a physicist. […]
I like “Numb3rs”. Not just the kind that let you do math, but also the TV show that attempts to popularize the life and minds of scientists. Centering on the stories of Charlie, a math prodigy and the youngest full faculty member at “CalPoly” (clearly modeled on CalTech), and his […]