IE7 Beta 2

I downloaded and installed IE7 Beta 2. I have to use IE to use the remote access tools for my job. It is the only time that I use IE. I use Firefox for everything else. I decided to see how remote access would work with IE7 and test out some of the new features.
IE7 [...]

Psychoquark

I was telling a friend about a posting on the blog, and I told him to look at cyclequark.wordpress.com. He thought I said psychoquark. What a great name for a blog. I should have thought of that. It would be too much work to move my stuff to psychoquark so I will leave it to [...]

Now Glamour Magazine Is Criticizing Bush Adminstration’s Science Policy

I must start with a caveat. I found this link to a story on glamour.com at reddit.com. I mentioned reddit.com once before. It is a social newsite where members submit stories that they have found on the internet and other members can vote to have them featured on the reddit.com home page. I find [...]

NY Times Covers EPP2010 Report

In today’s Times there is a article on the EPP2010 Report.

“That is a risky investment,” Harold T. Shapiro, an economist at Princeton and chairman of the 22-member commission, said yesterday at a news conference in Washington.
But, Mr. Shapiro added: “It’s least risky path we could find. To stay where we are is equivalent to [...]

EPP2010 Report Released

The National Academies has released their report in the future of elementary particle physics. I listened to a live streaming broadcast of the press conference. The panel made three prioritized recommendations.

Support U.S. physicists on the Large Hadron Collider.
Do the R&D needed to make a the US competitive in the science and technology needed for the [...]

Adding Light to the Heat of Global Warming

The New York Times tried to add some light to all of the heat about global warming in Sunday's Week in Review. Their review of the science seems reasonable. The earth is warming due to greenhouse gases and will continue to so. Predictions of detailed consequences are not as certain. Sea levels will rise, but [...]

Busy Bicycling

Bicycling season has started in earnest and kept me to too busy to much blogging. Once the weather gets good, I can be out on the road for 10-15 hours a week. Sometimes I think deep thoughts while I am on the bike, which I can write up when I get back, but mostly I [...]

It’s Particle Accelerator Day

Well at least in Illinois.
In recognition of the labs’ role as world leaders in accelerator technology, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich issued a proclamation declaring the day as “Particle Accelerator Day” in Illinois, which was read by IDCEO Director Lavin during the signing ceremony at the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago.
Argonne National [...]

The Authority on a Year of Gmail Use

I checked my blog stats today and saw that they were relatively high for me. The most viewed post was A Year of Gmail with 10 views. The next highest had 3. I am not sure where the traffic is coming from. The post is from March so it is not in my feeds or [...]

Will Immigrints Keep Doing Our Science

I commented on Philip Greenspun article about women in science twice already. It seems to be a very rich topic for discussion. A new point struck me today. Greenspun argued that immigrints are the ideal candidates for the intellectually demanding but insecure and not well paid jobs that our current scientific research organization provides.
Imagine that [...]