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Tomorrow: Presenting my research at this little mini-conference thing run by the agency that’s funded my postdoc. Good job/networking opportunity? Maybe, if it goes well. (Otherwise, it will be a *bad* place to try for job leads.)
Just found out that Freeman Dyson is going to be the keynote speaker tomorrow.
I really [...]

There’s a pair of freezers (the big hulking -80 C kind) lurking by the elevator at work. They’ve been there a few days now - electrical repairs in the old part of the building have pushed them out to our part to stay plugged in.
Just now noticed the note on top of one of [...]

If all of these “____ Citizens for Science” organizations really want to make sure that students are taught real, proven science - rather than convenient fictions added for drama and excitement - then they have a very obvious target: The notion that spaceships need engines to stay in orbit.
That’s a concept that is obviously [...]

“Critics say that if the bill is passed administrators will not be able to discipline teachers who deviate from the recently approved state education standards supporting the teaching of evolution.” – Nature News
The bill, of course, is the recently-passed “Academic Freedom Act”, which, fiendishly enough, “Prohibits a teacher from being discriminated against for [...]

Been working on slides this week, for a talk at the end of April. (They want a copy of the slides in advance so they can put them all on CD as a program to give out.) Naturally, every detail needs to be approved by the boss, which - naturally - “reflects fundamental [...]