Share/Bookmark Imagine you are a physicist doing research outside of Geneva, Switzerland, these days. It’s like when you were a kid driving back home with your parents from an awful family get-together. As you turn to look outside the window, you see all these kids playing and running around in a gigantic bouncy house. They’re [...]
Share/BookmarkIn our hectic everyday lives, we always try to find entertaining sources of distraction. Recently, my distractions have become Facebook (to the annoyance of some) and YouTube. If you are like me, then you have probably also come across debates between scientists from various disciplines and religious leaders of different denominations. While many of us [...]
Share/BookmarkI still remember my earliest childhood memories of looking up at the stars and having a feeling that even though I was down here and they were so far away we were somehow connected. It was almost a sense of yearning to be one with the stars, which made me want to be an astronaut [...]
Share/BookmarkAs I held my mother in her final moments on that early morning of May 2011, I experienced so many emotions all at once. Sad that I would not see her again or hear her voice, angry that I was not there for her more, relieved that she was no longer in pain, you name [...]
Share/BookmarkBefore we start, let’s play a quick game. Let’s play “Think of someone you have met.” Ready? OK. Please close your eyes and think of anyone you have ever met. Do you have someone in mind? Was it my elementary school friend, Raul? Probably not, but it was for me. Even if it wasn’t Raul, [...]
Share/BookmarkWe all wish we could stop the hands of time and look the way we did when we were high school seniors. Nationwide the cosmetic, beauty supply and perfume store industry has a combined annual revenue of about $11 billion. The plastic surgery industry had a revenue of $10 billion in 2011 with 9.2 million [...]
Share/BookmarkAt one time, we have all been part of that great philosophical debate — “What is nothing?” We can try to imagine nothing, we can try to contemplate what nothing looks and sounds like (just turn off the lights and mute the television) or close your eyes and put earmuffs on. Unfortunately, no matter how [...]
Share/BookmarkAs a child I was a huge fan of the 1980s NBC television science fiction series “Amazing Stories.” Despite only airing three seasons, this Steven Spielberg-created show was a cross between “The Twilight Zone” and “The X-Files.” One of the first episodes of the show, titled “The Mission” (starring Keifer Sutherland and Kevin Costner) involved [...]
Share/BookmarkThe recent Fourth of July announcement on the discovery of the Higgs boson was hailed as a historic milestone for science, but for physicists it marks the beginning of a new search. “It has to be the biggest announcement in many years,” said Larry Kawano, science interpretatives creator at Idyllwild’s Astrocamp. “Even if the announcement [...]
