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Jodi’s Marathon Training Nears the Halfway Mark

Jodi made me promise, right off when she started training for the Milwaukee Marathon, that I would start biking with her on the long runs to make sure she got enough water. She can’t carry the amount she requires, and the water stops mean slowing down and not running through […]

Jodi’s Marathon Training Nears the Halfway Mark

Cardinal Essay

I had a chance tonight to read through the contents of Cardinal Schönborn’s essay from the New York Times Op-Ed page (July 7, 2005). Reading it gave me an opportunity to refine my thoughts on this particular issue. The essay itself is at the bottom. First, I am beginning to […]

Cardinal Essay

Scientists to Pope: Clarify the Church’s Stance on Evolution

As I mentioned in a blog entry a few days ago, a cardinal close to Pope Benedict XVI recently published an essay that dismissed Pope John Paul II’s interpretation of the Theory of Evolution. In this essay, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn suggested that the interpretation of evolution as a natural process […]

Scientists to Pope: Clarify the Church’s Stance on Evolution

Family time, work time

What a great five days! My mother visited from Connecticut, for the first time coming to the Pacific coast of the U.S. Jodi and I were really happy to have a chance to spend time with her on our coast. We hit “wine country, toured SLAC”:http://steve.cooleysekula.net/photos/SF-Annetta-1/, and “hit Fisherman’s Wharf […]

Family time, work time

I Didn’t Know You Were Called Dennis

I Didn’t Know You Were Called Dennis

O Discordia!

Humanity continues its slide from reason to darkness. A cardinal close to Pope Benedict XVI “has published an essay detailing what might be the Catholic Church’s refined view of the Theory of Evolution”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/09/science/09cardinal.html?ex=1278561600&en=0c183426986e5e77&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss. Leave it to the Catholic church to bring down the hammer of dogma upon the long and […]

O Discordia!

Science and the United States

Last night, I had the pleasure of a long conversation with my colleague and friend Bob McElrath, a theoretical physicist. He had been down here at SLAC to give a presentation on his “recent paper describing how to search for low-mass dark matter at the B factories”:http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0506151. We stayed up […]

Science and the United States

Far-out hits Mainstream

Well, it finally happened. The story about the Russian astrologer suing NASA over the “Deep Impact” mission hit mainstream media (NPR) this morning on “Morning Edition”. Yikes! And I thought this pointless mess would be relegated forever to the pages of Google News!

Far-out hits Mainstream

U.S. Personifies Scientific Ignorance ahead of G8 Summit

In science, when one trend tracks another in perfect synchronization – that is, the absolute value and the change in slope of two distributions track point for point – we treat that as a potential correlation and investigate the relationship. This is what climatologists have been doing for decades now, […]

U.S. Personifies Scientific Ignorance ahead of G8 Summit

Deep Impact NASA TV Images

Here is an example image of what NASA has been showing on NASA TV. Here you can see the impact. The pictures will all be downloaded from the remaining vessel and cleaned up over the next few days, according to the interview that have been on tonight. This one is […]

Deep Impact NASA TV Images

Congratulations to my colleagues at NASA!

Tonight, the Deep Impact NASA mission appears to have made history: the first probe, sent by our species, into the surface of a comet. This mission will shed new light on the early solar system as we break into this frozen snapshot. The first pictures are amazing – a white […]

Congratulations to my colleagues at NASA!

Save the Fundamental Particles…

Inspired by this insane buzz in my head (which, in turn, was inspired by “the lawsuit a Russian astrologer is bringing against NASA over it’s mission to comet Tempel-1”:http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hs4321766jun27,0,6528169.story?coll=ny-health-headlines), I think it’s time we take this whole issue of “probing the universe with bombs” more seriously. No, seriously. I’ve previously […]

Save the Fundamental Particles…

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    October 18, 2025
    Want to learn more about why we do science deep underground? Check out my keynote lecture from the 2025 Stellafane Convention, “Astronomy Without Light”:https://youtu.be/wBdbYmXwjFs?si=JoWBV_PT1fNkhDPi#astronomy […]
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    October 18, 2025
    Want to see what it’s like to spend a day working in the underground laboratory @snolabscience.bsky.social? Check out this video! https://youtu.be/-PgVA2_yVEU?si=TSARx2hQTzWgdXq-#SNOLAB #UndergroundScience

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