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And his son Wolfgang was a distinguished physicist & director of SLAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_K._H._Panofsky

Surely Dyson is (should be!) better known for his role in establishing the theory of Quantum Electrodynamics. BTW, here's an excellent book, for those interested in the history of …

"I don't know the meaning of the symbols on the chalkboard. Whatever it is, I bet it's wrong." Those symbols demonstrate empirical knowledge of the relationship between baryons, th…

And not a very well-written one, at that.

isn't the raison d'etre of foundations such as Apache to see to it that this sort of thing doesn't happen to its products?

You can listen to collisions at the LHC! http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_sounds_higgs/Higgs.html Of course these collisions don't actually make sound , these are "sonifications"…

I was suicidal in Silicon Valley, having just been fired from my dream job at Stanford. I'm still alive, and I'm glad that I am. My life is still pretty wretched, but my perspectiv…

Thinking of family and friends may be related to the distress that our friend finds unbearable. I've been suicidal. Thinking of friends and family helps keep me alive. But everyone…

...US starts buying fighters from China?

Maybe the purpose of the F-35 project is to con the Chinese into building shitty fighters, too?

I don't wanna alarm ya, but scientists say forty percent of America's pictures... are hanging crooked.

nonsense.

It's all very nice. But this made me throw up a little. "With a functional programming implementation, it’s hard to imagine how a bug (other than a typo) might even be introduced."…

Clearly Krugman has underestimated the impact the fax machine has had on the economy.

Hmm... was expecting an article on Butterfly Labs.