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If Airlines were armies...

If Airlines were armies...

Sep 26 2009 | comment(s)

If  Airlines were armies, United and Lufthansa would be invincible. Their meals betray it -you know, the stronger an army, the worse the food it distributes. I am just out of a flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, and not only all my bones are complaining, but my stomach is sending me serious SOS signals: of course, since after close examination of the provided chicken dinner, I bailed out.
Do You Really Care About The Human Race ?

Do You Really Care About The Human Race ?

Sep 24 2009 | comment(s)

Do you really care about the human race ? I do, and probably I do more than you do. Well, not more than you, maybe -I do not know you personally!-; but I know where you come from: the class of human beings presently alive. And I think that most of the people on this planet just believe they care about mankind, but they actually care just about themselves.
The Say of the Week

The Say of the Week

Sep 24 2009 | comment(s)

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteins' brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

Stephen Jay Gould
In Control

In Control

Sep 22 2009 | comment(s)

Most of us like to be in control: of what happens around us, of our own feelings, of our actions, of the actions and well-being of our beloved ones. Being in control means feeling secure, unthreatened. It is the prevalence of order on chaos. And chaos, I have grown to realize, is one of the things that scares me most. Yes, I am a true control freak.
Do the Shot Setup Dance

Do the Shot Setup Dance

Sep 22 2009 | comment(s)

"17.35 Shot setup begins.
18.07 Loading final protons.
18.20 Loading pbars.
18.48 Preparing to ramp.
18.50 Ramping.
18.52 Jacking.
18.53 Squeezing.
18.56 Initiating collisions.
18.57 Ramping."

(From Fermilab's Main Control Room logbook today)
The Next Discovery Of Fermilab

The Next Discovery Of Fermilab

Sep 21 2009 | comment(s)

The question of what will the next discovery at Fermilab be was asked in the thread of a recent article, and I initially answered it there, but then thought that expanding my answer makes excellent material for an independent article. Therefore, below I have tried to put together my own personal list of the places from where a unexpected new Tevatron discovery may come and hit us, in the near future.