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We are both very tired, and will work for vacation. 🙂

Tired and willing to be on Vacation

Ok, well… to be specific we are basically in Joplin. We will be turning north soon. And, yes… those are them Duke Boys on the radio.

Somewhere in Missouri

Going North for the Winter

Jodi and I are departing today for our annual winter road trip from Texas to Wisconsin. We’re looking forward to spending time with family over the next 10 days. In the spirit of re-emerging into the world after a very busy year, I’m going to do my level best to […]

Going North for the Winter

I woke up a little late this morning. I wanted to be up at 4:30am. It was 4:40 when I realized the alarm I had set the night before was going off, and I pulled myself out of bed. Jodi was already up, working on her class prep for the […]

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics

The summer of 2018 was both predictable and unexpected. As I began reflecting on this past summer, now that teaching is nearly upon me again, I came to find numbers that represented its many aspects. I want to share some of those numbers with you, and the meaning behind them. […]

The Summer of 2018 – By The Numbers

I found myself recently standing on the shores of Lake Michigan, reflecting on the connections between these human spaces and the most vast spaces of the cosmic shores.  The lighthouse on Cana Island in Door County, Wisconsin stands on the shores of Lake Michigan. At a height of 87 feet, […]

A View from the Shadows: Lighthouse on the Cosmic Shore

Freedom from Symmetry: Six Years of the Higgs Particle

Six years ago on this date, the Higgs boson was (probably) discovered by the ATLAS and CMS Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. I say “probably” because, at the time, all we really knew for sure was that we had discovered a new particle, with a particular […]

Freedom from Symmetry: Six Years of the Higgs Particle

Faculty often have a lot to complain about when it comes to course evaluations. A significant body of literature suggests that course evaluations tell us little, as instructors, about the actual effect a course has had in achieving its goal (e.g. imparting a subject to a group of students).  However, […]

A Dialogue with Anonymity: Reviews of Spring 2018 PHYS 1303 …

  What an incredible week. Not only was the weather a strange cycle of “uncomfortably hot” and “beautifully cool”, but the sheer pace of work this week was blinding. There was time to relax a little, too, as when the weekend came I had dinner with an SMU alumna and […]

CERN Travel Journal: June 17 – 24, 2018

This was a glorious week at CERN. Being away from the United States for a little while, in place that is both host to the complications of international cooperation and a reminder of how things can actually be when people of different nations cooperate well, has been an out-of-body experience […]

CERN Travel Journal: June 10 – 16, 2018

I’ve decided to use my blog to reflect on my summer research activities as they unfold. I find such reflection not only useful for thinking about what is accomplished and what is not, but also to communicate to an audience some of the aspects of the research life of a […]

CERN Travel Journal: June 5 – June 9, 2018

The U.S. has been without a “science adviser” (technically speaking, a Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP) since the inauguration of the current president. Based on existing records, this is the longest that the U.S. has ever gone without this position being filled (492 days). […]

A peek in the wheelhouse

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