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Collaboration Data Sweet Analysis Awesome Goodness

OK, maybe it’s a little much. But, I have to say that this collaboration meeting has been a real high when it comes to physics. Not only is BaBar in the first stages of Run 7, a solid 10-month run from now until next October, but there is so much […]

Collaboration Data Sweet Analysis Awesome Goodness

Today, as I was thinking more about my undergraduate experience in physics, I recalled that I had a photo of my advisor, Michael, floating around on my home computer. What made me think of it was the laugh I had when I first found the picture. In one of my […]

Guy With Electronics

Migrate your COREBlog to WordPress

I thought there might be some Zope folks out there who would find the following useful. Below is the code for my DTML method, wordpress_xml, that converts COREBlog posts to WordPress XML. If you want to export your entire blog to WordPress, make sure to change the visible days’ worth […]

Migrate your COREBlog to WordPress

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Fork Stuck in the Road

Today, some very painful news reached me. My father informed me of the death of my undergraduate mentor in physics, Dr. Michael Schmidt. After a long battle with cancer, he passed on November 18. Michael was one of the reasons I survived my time as an undergrad at Yale. Without […]

Fork Stuck in the Road

Giving Thanks . . . if in hindsight

The last few weeks have been quite something. If I’ve been brief – administrative, even – it’s only because I’ve been caught up with home life, work life, and linux life. I ran my first road race a couple of weeks ago, the SLAC annual run/walk. It’s a four mile […]

Giving Thanks . . . if in hindsight

Professional Blog – what does that mean?

Sitting in the Kavli lounge, chatting with a friend of mine, I mentioned that I had finally gotten around to setting up a professional blog. He responded with, “What’s a professional blog?” Hmm. When I set the darn thing up, I didn’t really think about what it meant. Well, that’s […]

Professional Blog – what does that mean?

Migrating to WordPress!

Well, friends, it was inevitable. I hate static situations. Very soon, I’ll be moving this blog to “WordPress”, the excellent and highly-maintained blogging platform that is open-source and free for distribution and usage. For this blog, ever since its inception, I’ve used “COREBlog”, a plugin for the Zope webserver. It […]

Migrating to WordPress!

Intelligent Design on Trial

This past week aired the NOVA episode “Intelligent Design on Trial”, a recounting of the Kitzmiller v. Dover School Board case from last year. If you recall, the school board had voted to require science teachers to read a one-minute statement claiming that since Evolution was “just a theory” and […]

Intelligent Design on Trial

Meet the Robots

As part of the changing of our lives, Jodi and I have come to realize that the demands of our work and the demands of our home are becoming incompatible. We simply cannot keep a clean home and get our work done; doing both leads to no leisure time, which […]

Meet the Robots

Long Time, No See

This blog has gone dead in the past month. This was for a variety of reasons. I made a great number of changes in my life this past month, in an attempt to prepare for the great number of changes likely to come in the next few years. I had […]

Long Time, No See

Science and Peace

This has been an interesting year for the Nobel Prize. Recognizing contributions to the world in areas like chemistry, physics, biology, literature, and even peace, the prize is awarded once per year to up to two lucky individuals in a given field. This year, the prize in physics was awarded […]

Science and Peace

Science Thingy

Just over a week ago, “The Onion” – a weekly joke newspaper – had an article in it entitled, “Scientists Ask Congress To Fund $50 Billion Science Thing” [1]. Like all jokes, it contains some interesting issues which are funny because we all worry they might be true. It’s funny […]

Science Thingy

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    October 18, 2025
    Good morning and happy autumn, #Sudbury!#SilentSaturday #nature #rainbow
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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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