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The start of the academic year at Rice has been very time-intensive, leading to the low blogging frequency.  I will be trying to remedy that...

The run up to the new academic year has been very time-intense, so unfortunately blogging has correspondingly been slow.  Here are three int...

The shocking explosion in Beirut yesterday was truly awful and shocking, and my heart goes out to the residents.  It will be quite some time...

The "tunneling time" problem has a long, fun history.  Here is a post that I wrote about this issue 13 years ago (!!).  In brief,...

An impromptu science experiment this morning.  A few months ago we acquired some very nice insulated tumblers (initially from causebox  and ...

Sometimes when looking at the pace of results coming out of the 2D material community, I am reminded of an old joke from Tom Lehrer about s...

While no one knows right now whether the 2021 March Meeting will be in person, online, or some hybrid form next spring, now is the time to p...

Who doesn't need more videos to watch these days? Erica Carlson  has started a new Quantum Coffeehouse  video series , including intervi...

Some further items of note: There is great anxiety and frustration over the latest pronouncement from DHS/ICE about international students ...

We have a paper that came out today that was very fun.  It's been known for a long time that if you apply a sufficiently large voltage...

Some science items that crossed my path that you may find interesting: This article at Quanta is a nice look at the Ising model for a gene...

Real life has been intruding rudely on my blogging time.  I will try to step up, but nothing seems to be slowing down this summer. I sense f...

Pivoting back toward science by way of technology.... Some very large fraction of the microphones out there in electronic gadgets are based ...

People don't read this blog for moralizing, and I surely don't have any particular standing, but staying silent out of concern for s...

With so many large-scale events happening right now (the pandemic , resulting economic displacement, the awful killing of George Floyd and...

A proposal is being put in front of Congress that would reshape the National Science Foundation into the National Science and Technology Fou...

Between writing deadlines, battling with reviewer 3  (I kid, I kid), and trying to get set for the tentative beginnings of restarting on-cam...

Apologies for the slowed frequency of posting.  Academic and research duties have been eating a lot of bandwidth.  Here are a few items that...

People who eat pizza (not the deep dish casserole style from Chicago, but normal pizza), unbeknownst to most of them, have developed an intu...

A few more links to help fill the time: Steve Simon at Oxford has put his graduate solid state course lectures online on youtube, linked...