Returning to SLAC after the winter break is *always* a stress-affirming experience. After several weeks of total research avoidance practices (TRAPs), I had the unenviable job of remembering what I’d been doing before the break. Thank goodness for logbooks! After a one-day “getting up to speed” period, I managed to […]
I’m still listening to it, but there appears to be a well-done “American Radioworks production exploring the origins and evolution of the Intelligent Design movement”:http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/inteldesign/index.html. Once thing that bugged me about the program was that it *did not start with the definition of science*. Without that, it’s impossible to later […]
Need a swanky life? Is your life lacking macho business donkey wrestling? You **could** “check out Solid Gold Rold’s e-licious website”:http://www.solidgoldrold.com/, or you could just download “hot tunes from Grushenka”:http://www.cooleysekula.net/home/music/, the formerly hardest working blues band in the greater Middlesex county area.
With Dover over, I have begin to feel somewhat relieved that the American legal system recognizes that the science class is where science can be taught, and that attempts to inject non-science or religious philosophy requirements into the class are illegal. There is a new case, is my current home […]
I’ve been letting the story of the South Korean stem cell research, conducted (now known to be frauduently), simmer in my mind since early December. Like many other scientists, likely young ones like myself, I at first recoiled in shock and horror at the revelations that were slowly peeling away […]
I made a great number of observations about our nation during this Christmas break, which I’ll distill and write about over the coming weeks. Having family and friends scattered across the nation (with the former thankfully concentrated in key geographic locations), and having to travel great distances just to be […]
Finally, an airport with a proper, open, free, wireless internet system. Bradley International Airport, in Windsor Locks, CT, is the first airport I’ve been to which does WIFI correctly. No $10/day access fee, no “day pass” crap – just simple, open, WIFI. Jodi and I are heading back to California […]
Here’s something that ought to be of general interest: “the top 10 albums of the year”:http://www.ctnow.com/music/hce-sound1222.artdec22,0,5793551.column?coll=hce-utility-music, from the perspective of Eric Danton, the Hartford Courant’s music critic (and dear old friend of mine).
This vacation offered me the excellent opportunity to get together with my former band mates, Eric and Harold (find their music at “http://music.cooleysekula.net”:http://music.cooleysekula.net). We used to be in a band called Grushenka, which we started in 1995. Last night, we reviewed a bunch of early tapes we made (*never to […]
The recent “139-page ruling by Judge Jones”:http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf in the case *Kitzmiller vs. the Dover School Board of Education* was remarkable. Not just broad, this was a deep ruling which every scientist and lawyer should read. The American Institute of Physics (“http://www.aip.org”:http://www.aip.org) has printed, in its most recent FYI bulletin, “a […]
Jodi and I are in Connecticut with my parents now, getting ready for the new year. We went to Northampton, MA last night with my good pal Eric and several of his friends. We had the pleasure of a fine dinner and great music at the “Iron Horse Music Hall”:http://www.iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp, […]
The vacation is half over. Christmas is done, and now Jodi and I are getting ready to leave Wisconsin and head to Connecticut. Today, we decided to divert to Madison to relax for one night. This is a great chance to just hit some of our old haunts, spend some […]