Scientific American recently published the responses they received from many US President Candidates regarding questions on science and scientific matters. In this post, I apply the skills we expect from the practice of good argument and scientific thinking to assess the questions and the responses. Let’s focus on the “Innovation” […]
The first “debate” [1] between US Presidential candidates is coming up soon, on September 26. Recently, Scientific American published some of the candidates’ answers to a series of questions grounded in scientific issues and the policies that could be associated with those issues. In a series of posts on this […]
We’re mid-campaign in the US Presidential Election. How are the candidates holding up? Running for President entails the use of vast amounts of propaganda. Some of it is aligned with facts, much of it is not. How are the major party candidates doing after months of slinging accusations back and […]
We zip through Oshkosh after a brief stop. Have to keep moving North. We have appointments to keep and still many hours left to this drive.
Sure, it is cloudy, but the weather is so pleasant. We are approaching Oshkosh on our trek north. I like the country out here. Very green and very open, dotted by farms and popping with flowers right now.
We begin the trek north for a family event weekend in Wisconsin. Of course, we begin this trip the way all trips north in Wisconsin should begin: stuck in Milwaukee traffic.
This summer was not only for physics research and astronomy teaching. I was also focused on a personal goal: fitness and weight-loss. My goal was to get below 190lbs this past summer. Given that I began this goal after a slight uptick in weight in the Spring, from 200lbs to […]
The summer was mostly filled with research, and, in fact, this made for a very productive summer. By the end of July, the physics analysis that I work on within the ATLAS Collaboration – the search for H->bb decay (Higgs decays to bottom quarks) – was presented publicly at the […]
I am a scientist. Normally, I would turn to evidence to debunk a claim. But sometime the lie is so big… so deep… so fundamentally wrong… that only a story of faith can counter its power. Presumptive Republican U.S. Presidential Candidate Donald Trump comes to the U.S. Evangelical Christian as […]
I just spent two weeks at CERN. Due to limited travel funds this year, I had to keep my summer time here limited to save money for other trips and my research leave in the spring of 2017. Nonetheless, this was an incredibly productive pair of weeks. I’ll reflect a […]
This summer began, for me, with a little bit of travel. The first part was for relaxation; Jodi, her oldest younger sister, and I went to Paris for a week. After that, we headed to the conference “Rencontres de Blois” for which Jodi is an organizer. In these brief “field […]
On January 12, 2012, I weighed 248lbs. That was the heaviest I’d ever been in my life, and up to this date the good news is that it is still the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life. Back then I had knee pain. I had high blood pressure. I […]