June 2015 – Page 2 – Uncertain Principles Archive

What a Difference a Year Makes

SteelyKid dressed in "fancy clothes" (a dress over tights with a picture of stars and nebulae on them), and The Pip in his new Superman shirt.

Back in October or so, SteelyKid’s first-grade class started a weekly journaling exercise. Every Monday, we were supposed to send in a sheet with some prompts on it– words about something interesting that happened over the weekend, and the kids started the day writing about… whatever it was. I was a little dubious about having… Continue reading What a Difference a Year Makes

The Birth of BEC

I’m massively short on sleep today, and wasn’t going to blog until I saw somebody on Facebook mention that June 5th 1995 is the date of record for the first Bose-Einstein condensate at JILA in Boulder. I couldn’t let that pass, so I wrote it up for Forbes: Twenty years ago, in the summer of… Continue reading The Birth of BEC