Nobel prize winner in physics, Sir Anthony Leggett joins the faculty at the University of Waterloo where he’ll spend at least two months a year working at Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing. Will Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Robert Laughlin be next 🙂 ?
No More iSilence
Apple releases the iPhone, causing millions of white earphone zombies campuswide to break their vows of silence. I guess you’d have to walk around a college campus to find this fragment even remotely funny 🙂
Comet McNaught
Via Dynamics of Cats, I just found out about Comet McNaught:
the brightest comet in decades! Now if only we get a clear day here in Seattle (yeah I’m wishing…today’s forcast is for snow!)
Update: Hmmm seems that I’m getting quite a few viewers due to this post. More information about this comet can be found here and here.
Quantum Rose Parade
The Program for the SquiNT 2007 conference is online. Looks like a lot to fit in my pea sized brain.
2007: Year of the Beaver!
Today is a big day in sports news. No I’m not talking about the BCS championship. No, no, something much more important happened over the weekend.
Caltech Basketball team ended its losing streak! After 207 consecutive NCAA Division III loses, Caltech beat Bard College of New York 81-52! Okay, with that monkey off their back now all they need to do is beat one of their division foes…that’s a streak of over 22 years and 245 loses. Beaver Fever!
How Many Vacation Days?
Article on physical science funding and the fact that those lazy bums from the last congress didn’t pass a budget.