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DeanCane makes landfall

My thoughts tonight will be with the many people in the path of Hurricane Dean as it makes landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.

DeanCane makes landfall

Hurricane Season Heating Up

Two years ago, we in the United States were treated to the destruction of an entire city, the failure of local, state, and national government institutions, and an ongoing saga regarding the New Orleans’ levee system. Last year, predictions were for an equally destructive season, something that was averted thanks […]

Hurricane Season Heating Up

RANDR

After my last freak out, I decided it was time for some R&R. My sister is visiting next week, and that seemed like a pretty good time to just not come into work. Consequently, I’ll be taking my first vacation since Christmas next week. In the meantime, I’ve had a […]

RANDR

Summer Crash

Well, this probably is the worst year on record. Sigh. It had such potential. Last November, I was optimistic that I’d be done with my search for invisible decays of the Upsilon, I’d have at least one other publication in addition from another rare decay search, and that by now […]

Summer Crash

The Palo Alto Artists’ Clique

Jodi and I finished dinner tonight and the suggestion arose that we shouldgo to a local cafe for cake, coffee, and a little atmosphere. She had some work to do on a research project, something she could do with her Powerbook, and I had a paper to edit and some […]

The Palo Alto Artists’ Clique

Science and Belief, Alive in the Scientist

One of the pleasures of being a post-doc is to see the next generation of scientist enter graduate school, wrestle with classes and exams and research, and achieve their Ph.D. A part of this, which doesn’t always happen, is also the personal struggle. In high school, I was certain that […]

Science and Belief, Alive in the Scientist

Unicorns and Pentaquarks

YAWN STRETCH OW! Well, at least I won’t need my legs to type this. This morning, Jodi and I met friends at Sequoia High School down at the bottom of our hill. The occasion was not breakfast and coffee, though it became clear an hour later that both of those […]

Unicorns and Pentaquarks

Celebrating a new linux user!

Today, the linux world has a new member. A student with whom I work received a linux laptop today, a great little machine from System 76 [1]. In celebration of the open-source goodness of linux, I list a few of my favorite applications and plugins for linux and open-source software. […]

Celebrating a new linux user!

Science without Ethics, Ethics without Religion, Religion without Science

At one of the first Republican Presidential candidate debates, three of the contenders raised their hands when asked if they do not believe in evolution. These were Tom Tancredo, a Congressman from Colorado, Senator Sam Brownback, and former Governor Mike Huckabee. Since then, they’ve been clarifying their position [1]. This […]

Science without Ethics, Ethics without Religion, Religion without Science

Dreaming of Taus

The mad rush to the summer conferences is almost over, and while I am still trying to wrap up the research projects I’ve been working on for many months, I am thinking ahead to other projects that I’d like to start in the autumn. The BaBar experiment offers many opportunities […]

Dreaming of Taus

Standing for Nothing

I finally had a chance this week to listen to the Senate testimony of Dr. James Holsinger, the President’s choice for Surgeon General. It’s taken me a few days to digest and form some impressions. I’ll try to communicate them here. My most global observation is that Holsinger stands for […]

Standing for Nothing

Deadlines make for crazy people…

As Jodi and I discussed on our podcast this Sunday [1], deadlines and time pressures make people nuts. In physics, this is the kooky season, as the big conferences – EPS (European Physical Society), SUSY07, and Lepton-Photon ’07 approach. Over the next 1.5 months, thousands of physicists from across the […]

Deadlines make for crazy people…

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    July 1, 2025
    EPA employees sign ‘declaration of dissent’ over agency moves under Tr**p | Tr**p administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/epa-employees-declaration-dissent-trump #damage #science
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    June 30, 2025
    More and more over the last decade, as institutions allow people to book time in other people's calendars, there has been the presumption that […]

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