If you’re wondering about the slow posting hereabouts, it’s because I’m spending a lot of time on my classes. Having a day job sucks that way. I’ve mentioned before that I’m doing a senior-level elective class on Quantum Optics. This is very much an idiot experimentalist’s approach to the material, but if you’d like a… Continue reading What I Do to Earn a Living
Month: April 2006
Stop Marking Your Territory
While I managed to correctly re-set the clock yesterday, in the process, I turned my alarm off, so I’m running late. Which means no lengthy science blogging this morning. Even running late, though, I can’t pass over Fred Clark’s message to the evangelicals who organized an anti-pop-culture rally in San Francisco: Stop it. Just stop.… Continue reading Stop Marking Your Territory
Really Expensive Mothballs
There’s a little squib in the New York Times today about the return of the Dawn mission to visit a couple of asteroids, one of their little not-quite-a-full-story things in the “Week in Review” section of the print edition (we get the Sunday Times delivered, because I find it much more civilized to spend a… Continue reading Really Expensive Mothballs
Know Your Hoaxes
With silliness running riot at ScienceBlogs, it’s more important than ever to keep your fraud-detection skills sharp. Thankfully, the BBC is here to help, with a list of real news stories that sound like they might be hoaxes (via Making Light). Unfortunately, they’re mostly not very funny. A couple are just lame celebrity trivia. But… Continue reading Know Your Hoaxes
Final Four Preview
Because my bracket picks this year have been so uncannily accurate (tied for twelfth of 23 in the ScienceBlogs pool), I’m sure you’re all dying to know what my predictions are for the Final Four games, if only so you can bet the opposite. The short version is: Florida over LSU in the title game.… Continue reading Final Four Preview