WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning. In a bulletin sent Christmas Eve to about 18,000 police organizations, the FBI said terrorists may use almanacs “to assist [...]
Sputnik = 1957, but the boom in Physics PhDs peaked in 1970, with a second peak in the mid 90s (from the aps): So those 1970 PhDs are now in their late 50s. And, of course, everyone knows that physicists always do their best work when they are much younger. So, logically, these 1970 PhDs [...]
A search on google for “academia skiing” yields 8650 results. Similarly “tenure track physics skiing” yields 2940 results. This must be fixed. Powder snow skiing is not fun. It’s life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. – Dolores LaChapelle
Visiting the University of New Mexico and Los Alamos this week, so posting may be sparse. It is wonderfully cold here.
I wonder how many people move out of the city as a result of watching a Warren Miller film? The most famous Warren Miller quote? Perhaps “Don’t take life to seriously because you can’t come out of it alive.”
…but instead “Which Founding Father Are You?” tells me I am Which Founding Father Are You? If only they had included a question about hair color.
“It is no secret that we are not scientists up here, so we look at things logically.”-U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) commenting on the his attempt to hone in on sound science in the debate about climate change.
Look at the size of that chicken! If only the Iraqi citizens would simply learn to sneak around the Iraq without being seen, then there would be no problem. I propose therefore that we spend the $9,000,000,000 monthly on stealth suits for all Iraqi citizens (but only for the Good Iraqi citizens.) Update: From Harper’s [...]
To the question “Is the universe a computer?” many today might answer “Yes…a quantum computer!” The first comment I want to make about this is that this is a kind of funny answer. The reason this answer is funny is that when we refer to a quantum computer we are usually refering to a machine [...]
