Tom Hanks to Turn on Large Hadron Collider
Thursday February 19, 2009
When the Large Hadron Collider starts up in September, the person "pushing the button" will be none other than Hollywood legend Tom Hanks. Hanks played Robert Langdon in the film ... Read More
Time Traveler Book Review
Sunday February 15, 2009
A while back, there was a report on About.com Sci-Fi/Fantasy about Spike Lee's purchase of rights to Dr. Ronald Mallett's autobiography, Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time ... Read More
New Online Educational Resource: Academic Earth
Tuesday February 10, 2009
In the past, I have written about the amazing online educational resources becoming available online. (Just last week, there was the Nobel Prize Star Stories and a What Is String ... Read More
Science as Stimulus
Monday February 9, 2009
About a year ago, the Council for Chemical Research came out in support of a 14% increase in science funding for the National Science Foundation, as proposed by then-President Bush. ... Read More
New LHC restart schedule
Monday February 9, 2009
The CERN management today approved a schedule for the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), based heavily upon recommendations from last week's Chamonix workshop. In the new schedule, the ... Read More
"What is String Theory?" Lecture
Saturday February 7, 2009
One of the most fascinating topics in modern theoretical physics is the question of string theory, and recently at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, as part of their series ... Read More
LHC Update
Saturday February 7, 2009
New recommendations to the CERN management indicate that the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be delayed from summer into the fall of 2009, because the final magnets ... Read More
Nobel Prize Star Stories
Saturday February 7, 2009
The Nobel Prize in Physics has often rewarded discoveries about the life cycle of stars, and the Nobel Prize organization has created a new interactive media feature, "Star Stories," which ... Read More