December 2007
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Are you on this list?
Seen at the security checkpoint, Aurangabad Airport, Maharashtra, India. (By the way, No. 24, Shri Robert Vadra, is Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law.) More on my India trip soon, I hope. Until then, happy holidays!
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Proud to hail from the Garden State
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Normally I try to finesse my origins and claim to be a New Yorker, but today I am proud to have grown up in New Jersey: Death Penalty Repealed in New Jersey — New York Times: “Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law a measure repealing New Jersey’a death penalty on Monday, making the state…
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On the Bush Presidency
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This is the Nixon Administration without the competence. –Senator Joe Biden, This Week with George Stephanopoulos , December 9, 2007.
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UK Physics on the chopping block
Today we heard that the (bizarrely agglomerated) UK Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills will be significantly cutting the physics budget that comes through the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). STFC was formed earlier this year out of PPARC (Particle Physics and Astrophysics) and the CCLRC (which ran big facilities like the Rutherford Appleton…
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More PhD goodness
Congratulations to Joe Zuntz, recipient of Imperial Astrophysics’ latest Doctorate for successfully defending his entertainingly-titled Ph.D. Thesis, “Cosmic Microwave Background Power Spectrum Estimation and Prediction with Curious Methods and Theories”. Joe had been my student since 2004, working on topics from hard-core data analysis with the MAXIPOL team to exploring the repercussions of exotic theories…
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