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Write Your Member of Congress: Graduate Tuition is Not Taxable Income!

Write your member of Congress today and tell them that making graduate tuition waivers count as part of taxable income will spell doom for higher education in STEM in the US and threaten the US STEM workforce. https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ Here is my letter to Congressmen Pete Sessions and Sam Johnson: Dear […]

Write Your Member of Congress: Graduate Tuition is Not Taxable …

The Nobel Prize committee planned the announcement of the 2017 prize in Physics for Tuesday, October 3, at 11:45am CET (4:45am US Central time). I got up early this morning to connect to the live stream and listen to the announcement. The Nobel Committee announced that this year’s prize goes […]

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

This weekend is drawing to a close. I write this not from Dallas, where Jodi and I finally returned home 2 weeks ago after a brief (and originally unplanned) vacation in Wisconsin, but from the SMU campus in Taos, NM. It is Sunday morning. The past week – the first […]

A view of Orion

The first half of the summer was packed with a bunch of stuff, including a busy travel schedule followed by the death of a beloved pet. The second half of the summer has been a little bit more sane, involving more focused travel followed by a break in work-related travel […]

Summer Journal: Part 2

Today at the European Physical Society’s annual meeting, the ATLAS Experiment unveiled a number of new results based on the extensive data collected in 2015 and 2016 at a center-of-mass collision energy that is equivalent to balling together the energy of 13,000 proton masses. Among those results was one near […]

The Higgs’ Most Favoritist Thing is Beautiful

The most definitive way to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease, a severely degenerative disease of the brain, is an autopsy. Of course, the symptoms show up earlier – memory loss, personality changes, physical changes, and differing degrees of diagnosis are achievable with cognitive tests and scans of the brain. But distinguishing Alzheimer’s […]

Draining the Brain

There has been too much happening this summer to stop and write about it. Instead, here are scenes and some short verses describing this summer so far. Needless to say, if there wasn’t even time to write… it was one heck of a ride.

Summer Journal: Part 1

This week Jodi and I left for Washington D.C. on Monday for an event at the Canadian Embassy on Tuesday night. She had been invited to attend an evening celebrating science in Canada, especially Nobel Prize-winner Art McDonald and projects at SNOLAB, that nation’s premiere underground science facility. In addition, […]

The Sign of Four Estates: The Week in Review, April …

This past week was my last in Europe until the end of May. I started in London, wrapping up my last full day at Queen Mary University of London on Monday and then heading to CERN to work with my colleagues in the SMU ATLAS group, including a student and […]

The Dock in the Clouds: The Week in Review, April …

Given how much the past few months have been largely about “eating the seed” corn by threatening to pillage the nation’s scientific capabilities, this week was comparably more uplifted. Having reached a tipping point with the rhetoric of the current president, scientists and science advocacy organizations started planning a “March […]

A Force for Greatness: Science Policy Links for the Week …

This was quite a week. It began with the long Easter weekend here in the UK, which came to an exceptional end for me on Monday at St. Martin-in-the-Fields for a performance of Handel’s “Messiah” and a night out with (and I love to say these words) my publisher and […]

The Pump with No Handle: The Week in Review (April …

  This last week has been eventful! It began with an early morning return to Dallas from Connecticut, fighting the beginning of an annoying cold. After a couple of days at home, I was on a plane again, this time to London to spend 13 days working with colleagues at […]

The Case of the Street that Wasn’t: The Week in …

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    September 16, 2025
    I was up early this morning to catch the “cage” to the underground lab. It was such a beautiful morning with excellent, clear skies, […]
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    September 15, 2025
    Today was a day for blue skies, two long walks, tacos, a nap, reading out in the yard, and cheesecake. Also dinner and music […]

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