…two different research groups announced the discovery of the same new particle and redefined how physicists view the universe.
Forty years ago today
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Nobel Vintage
Fundamental Physics Prize Co-Winner Sells No Wine Before Its Time
Brian Schmidt is the world’s only vintner with a Nobel Prize in physics, specializing in pinot noir because the climate and soil (or terroir) is especially well suited for that varietal. He and is wife own a four-star winery called Maipenrai (Thai for “It’s all right”) in Sutton, New South Wales, near Canberra.
Stoics: Myth and Reality
Clothes Dryer
"You got a tumble dryer? That's nice. My dryer is powered by NUCLEAR FUSION." pic.twitter.com/HLHU2hlrgm
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) November 8, 2014
Virginia Glenn McDavid. 1926-2014
Rest in peace, Mom.
Monday Night Irish Class, November 3, 2014
Irish Class, November 3, 2014
Rang Gaeilge, 3 lá Mí na Samhna 2014
October 27 was an all-class session. I had to pretend I was a wise elder.
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CRÚBA NA CINNIÚNA
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Caibidil 1: Eachtra san Oíche
Fascism and capital punishment
Mussolini’s Secret Weapon: Castor Oil is an interesting sidelight on history. It includes something in particular for modern Americans to think about:
In the years from the March of Rome, 1922 to Italy’s foolish entry into WW2 10 June 1940 sixty five men were executed in Fascist Italy (there were also a dozen or so extra legal killings). In modern Texas (with a population over half the size of 1930s Italy) twenty to thirty individuals are executed a year.
Forward into the past
The dangers of forced religion
“Skepticism” about Climate Change
The link between atmospheric CO2 and rising global temperatures cannot be dismissed as a case of “correlation and causality.” Continue reading
