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New Application (2008 Dirac Medals)
I missed this, but it's started bubbling up on the PHENIX lists: The Dirac medals were awarded a few weeks ago, and somehow it seems that being interested in the quark gluon plasma is no longer a...
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Holy moly, what have we here? Quark Matter 2009, on the news...and look there I am in the green down vest just as it begins! And there's Giorgio, breaking our hearts. And Kai and Spencer, trying to...
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Starry Eyed
This is really fun (via Gizmodo): a picture how the sky would look if your eyes were as sensitive as a long exposure telescope image. Explanation: Intricate, glowing nebulae that shine in planet...
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Twittering
Yes, I broke down and started twittering. I used to find it quite pointless, compared to "normal" blogging, but then I started getting into updating my facebook status, and realized I actually enjoyed...
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Plot Device of Mass Destruction
Don't be afraid, the likelihood of anyone gathering up even a fraction of a gram of anti-matter (as seen here in this still from the Angels & Demons preview) is pretty unlikely. The ATRAP...
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Tesla in Shoreham
Tesla's lab was located in Shoreham, New York (yes, that Shoreham - but a lovely place I used to live in when I first moved to BNL) in Long Island, just north of Brookhaven. The Times reports on the...
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Redesign
Not like I have time to fiddle around and redesign things just for the heck of it but, well, I fiddled around and made the design a little cleaner, and even cleaner still with some help from my wife....
View ArticleS.O.S. (Save Austrian Science)
Just in case you missed it: Austria is planning on pulling out of CERN after 50 years involvement. The claim is that they can use the money (about $21M) elsewhere in the EU.Anyway, don't think that the...
View ArticleStill Twittering
Still twittering like crazy - lots of links and short bursts of commentary - but it takes mindshare away from the blog. Not sure how to solve this yet, until I have complete essay-length thoughts to...
View ArticleI must start writing again
Some of my favorite tweets from the last few days, translated into English."The Rorschach debate almost seems like a Rorschach test itselfhttp://bit.ly/ZiAfv (so download 'em while you can!...
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The (Rail) Road to the Renaissance of RHIC on the Ring Road
How things change. In 2005, James Simons and Renaissance Partners made an astute investment in science, by funding the last 10% of the RHIC budget for 2006 -- one that literally made 100% of the...
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“Nobody got hurt, and I’m not in jail.”
Of course I could see it coming for the last week or so on Twitter, and we had good reasons, but I'm sad we missed Duke Riley's naumachia in Corona Park. Besides being one of the Best Places in the...
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A piece of the strong-correlations puzzle?
Which one of these things is not like the other? None of them, it may turn out.Editing a colleague's article over the weekend tipped me off to this piece, by Jorge Quintanilla and Chris Hooley, which...
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Rabbit & lucite blocks
The rabbit is something one might use in a child's room. The lucite blocks with embedded geometric solids are something else entirely: they've been in my family since I was a small child and I know...
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STAR in the Prince's Eye?
Voici "Le Petit Prince": A plant-bearing robot for encouraging plant life on, um, Mars:But is there a certain STAR in this robot's single eye? If we look at 0:32 we see something like this:Don't know...
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Pardon my going on and on about this , but "Science is Real" is one of my favorite things recently, and not just out of anticipation of watching it over and over again with my daughter in a couple of...
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I might be wrong, but...
One of my least-well-kept secrets is that I'm mildly obsessed with the old hydrodynamical model invented by Landau and Fermi in the early 50's, which predicts (surprisingly well, IMHO) the total number...
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When gold collides!
Real time event displays from the STAR experiment at RHIC. This is what their raw data looks like, folks. Pretty neat, even 10 years after the early displays that you see everywhere. And I mean...
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