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We had quite a storm last night, with some power outages from high winds, ice, and snow. But everything has been quite driveable this morning (although the school system cancelled buses today). Here is the view from Highway 144 on the way into SNOLAB.

Snowfall

I hate moving. The fact that I am so happy after the big relocation from Texas to Canada tells you how great Sudbury and SNOLAB have been. Moves irritate me because it takes so long to recover from them. You unpack for what feels like (or actually are) years. I […]

Little Steps: The Gym Comes Together

Happy new year, everyone. The calendar says it is 2023. From the perspective of our orbit about the Sun – the solar year – we are still several hours from that mark. Earth takes 365.25 Gregorian calendar days to make one orbit about the Sun. As a result, every fourth […]

It is (almost) the year 2023

It was October in the void. The white dwarf, Nain Blanc, had been, for some time, slurping up the hydrogen and helium from the vast gas envelope of its partner, a red giant, Géant Rouge. When they were younger, the two stars burned bright in the dark of empty space, […]

New Science for a New Year: The Helium and Lead …

The pastor was prayin’For sinners unpracticed,Preparin’ communion(Except for us Baptists) And I’m in the second pew ready for healin’When a voice next to me says “We should be wheelin’;The ERs the place that I want to beOn Christmas Eve, o brother, why can’t you see?” We’ll go to the ERAnd […]

Christmas in the ER: A Jaunty Christmas Carol!

I love miniatures. My mother(in-law)’s village is very photogenic. Enjoy!

Scenes from Mom’s Christmas Village

The most common thing Canadians say to us after we exclaim how much we love it in Sudbury is this: Just wait until January. All Sudburians to Foreign Nationals from Warmer Climates To which I say: some like it Hoth. Hoth was, and still is, my favorite setting in the […]

Like it Hoth

The last few months on this blog have been quiet … too quiet. I think it is generally true that the activity level of a blog may be inversely proportional to the level of activity of the writer. If that be true, then let the lack of effort here be […]

Coming Back to Life

blue UTP cord

I own a number of internet domains, including most notably cooleysekula.net (this one), polari.us (where some social media stuff is run), and astrohep.org (hosting some services for astrophysics and high-energy physics research). Since these are all hosted on servers I own and run out of my house, and since we […]

Get Ready: A Bunch of Domains Going Offline

When I delivered Parts 1 and 2 of the last lecture of Physics 1303 (Introduction to Mechanics) on May 2 and 3, 2022, I had an inkling that these might be my last ever lectures to SMU undergraduates. I prepared them with joy and love and care. It was emotionally […]

Last Lectures at SMU: Alien Life and the Probability of …

Bittersweet moment #4 this week: we went to SMU and packed our personal things in our faculty offices. Did not get everything, but books and papers are done. This just leaves knick knacks to pack in my office.

Spring Cleaning, Except it’s Packing to Move to Canada

The news became public for the first time yesterday: Jodi has been selected to be the next Executive Director of SNOLAB and has accepted the offer for the position. You can read more about this here in the press release from SNOLAB: Dr. Jodi Cooley named Executive Director of SNOLAB […]

A Change is Coming

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