O brave new quantum world!
From The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick:
Dreams of poverty excited universal enjoyment in Berkeley, coupled with the hope that the political and economic situation would worsen, throwing the country into ruin: this was the theory of the activists. Misfortune so vast that it would wreck everyone, responsible and not responsible alike sinking into defeat.
From The Register
To be fair, a vast amount of work being done at CalTech [sic] and Carnegie Mellon is coming from the efforts of undergraduate students more interested in beer than the military complex.
Update: For those wondering where this came from, it came from here
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 with target selection and pre-operational planning.”
My vacation:
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 should retire. Right? Right?
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
If only they had included a question about hair color.
A flash animation for all you naughty naughty TPers