Faraday's Cage Is Where You Put Schroedinger's Cat

I’ve been getting comments back on proposals I wrote last fall.  Most of them are really helpful, but there are a couple major head scratchers. There was one comment, however, that was just plain funny and managed to make it into the project summary. One of the reviewers simply asked, “Why?!” As our group was […]

Last week, having never been to Florida, I had one day to go exploring.  While Universal Studios was awfully tempting, I chose another location: Kennedy Space Center.  Rather than bore you with explanations, I’ll give you the photo tour.  (My husband graciously consented to be the model for several of these pictures…) The entrance (if [...]

Last week, before leaving for a conference, I posted the following on Twitter: So if I’m working our booth at the conference, does that make me a booth babe?(That IS a joke, BTW.) Now that I’m back, I realize that comment should’ve been taken as a bad omen.  I actually didn’t expect there to be [...]

I was recently talking to a non-technical person who was interested in some of my work.  As we were discussing some of the specifics, he asked about a distance between two pieces of equipment. “Oh, it’s about a meter,” I responded.  I was met with a blank stare.  I thought for a moment then added, [...]

I was working on my thesis, trying to do some debugging, when I discovered a discrepancy between two pieces of code.  Mike was standing nearby, and when I made that noise one makes when they discover something is afoot, he asked what was up. “There’s a difference between kappa in these two programs.” “What’s kappa?” [...]