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Whew

I’ve been running pretty silent again lately. It’s not like interesting things have stopped happening in the world. About a third of the Republican presidential candidates still don’t believe in evolution, the basis of progress in the entire modern medical and social fabrics of our world (good luck on real […]

Whew

Oh . . .

Jodi and I went down to Stanford tonight. We do this occasionally, to take a walk and maybe grab a cup of coffee. On our way back to the car, we saw a huge art piece sitting off on the side of the path. It was built from what looked […]

Oh . . .

Pretty much another espisode of “The Two-Body Problem”

Over coffee at the dining room table this morning, Jodi and I churned out another episode of “The Two-Body Problem”, our (weekly?) netcast. You can grab it from the show’s website: http://twobodyproblem.cooleysekula.net/#%5B%5B3%20June%202007%5D%5D This week, we were particularly interested in the recent immigration bill and the statements by NASA administrator Michael […]

Pretty much another espisode of “The Two-Body Problem”

Slim Jim

Yesterday was a pretty good day. Jodi, a friend, and I hiked from Portola Road up through the Windy Hill open space preserve to Skyline Drive at the top of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The view from the top was stellar, not only because of the expanse of the Bay […]

Slim Jim

Mixed Messages

I’ve been quiet again lately – take that as a sign that there has been a lot of physics to do. However, I’m compelled to jot a few things down after the barrage of messages coming out of Washington today. One of the first things that we teach each other […]

Mixed Messages

The Two-Body Problem: a netcast!

Well, we finally did it. After making some intro/outro music on Apple’s GarageBand, sitting down at the kitchen table, and talking into a microphone, Jodi and I have finally made our first podcast. You can get it from: http://twobodyproblem.cooleysekula.net/ You can subscribe (using Amarok, iTunes, or a similar program), get […]

The Two-Body Problem: a netcast!

Go Human with Dell

Well, it finally happened . . . again! Dell has officially begun shipping several desktop and laptop options with linux pre-installed. Yay! Today, the terrorists have officially lost a battle. <a href=”http://www.ubuntulinux.org/”>Ubuntu Linux</a> is the installation of choice. Based on the huge Debian Linux community, with strong customer support and […]

Go Human with Dell

Photos from the Hunt for Dark Matter

As promised, here are photos from our time during the Hunt for Dark Matter: http://steve.cooleysekula.net/photos/HuntForDarkMatter/ Here’s another photo from the hunt for dark matter: This photo is the result of more gravitational lensing on colliding galaxy clusters. The blue halo represents the amount of lensing due to non-luminous (dark) matter. […]

Photos from the Hunt for Dark Matter

A Week in Soudan

I’ve been pretty nuts in the past two months. With the load of work spiking very suddenly in April in May, combined with working late and long hours, I felt pretty overwhelmed. This happens from time to time; it’s never pretty, and it takes its toll. However, I knew that […]

A Week in Soudan

Dark Matter do-si-do

Last week, I had the great pleasure of attending “The Hunt for Dark Matter”, a symposium at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Dark matter hunters, and even a skeptic or two, converged from across the world at Fermilab to discuss the current state-of-the-art in detection, the hopes for future experiments, and […]

Dark Matter do-si-do

Less Math, More Civics

Tonight on “Humankind”, David Freudberg inteviewed Helen Thomas, the feisty and sharp White House reporter. At one point, expressing her frustration with the state of willingness of the American People, said that she wished that less math was being taught in school, in favor of more civics and history. This […]

Less Math, More Civics

Working too hard?

It’s summer conference season again. For a lot of us on BaBar, that means a lot of sacrifice. The data keeps coming, and lots of results come with it. A consequence of the “distracting” events in Europe is that fewer people seem to be feeling more of the load than […]

Working too hard?

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    August 18, 2025
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    August 16, 2025
    My summer program co-chair, Dr. Christine Kraus, and I are very proud of the hard work students put in across a wide range of […]

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