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I have a particle physics background and live happily with my wife Sukie and our five ferrets.
Interests: ferrets, physics, astronomy, atmospheric optics, os x, numerous technologies, large and dangerous electrical devices, simple hacks, social computing, history, history of science and technology, music, digital music, photography, image manipulation, and story telling
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airship quadball
a minipost Every field has its special teachers - those who have figured out how to inspire and raise the level of the students. About five years ago I wrote about Woodie Flowers and his passion for teaching. One of the most playful and play inspiring teachers I know about... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at omenti
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creativity in film and beyond
Unburdened by the plastic wrap so common to art books, it was sitting in the bookstore and was reminded how much I wanted it. A copy of The Art of WolfWalkers. Ten minutes of delight, but it was too spendy for this trip. WolfWalkers is the third in a set... Continue reading
Posted Sep 2, 2024 at omenti
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a legend
Adm Grace Hopper is of the heroes of early computing. In addition to making fundamental contributions to software, she was one of the few who started to realize what technological change impacted people. Recently some of the security folks - notably Bruce Schneier and Steve Bellovin - learned about a... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2024 at omenti
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playful active learning
A few months ago I had another in what has become a series of chats with a neurology professor. Both of us are (well) over 60 and, given the two aging presidential candidates at the time, the subject of preventing dementia came up. He noted the standard things - exercise... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2024 at omenti
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first, third, second, fifth, fourth - a psychological tour
A minipost There's a common signal that emerges when you talk to elite athletes about how they feel about their final position. Universally they say bronze medals feel better than silvers and fourth place is the worst in single elimination play with quarter and semifinals. Sarah, in particular, has gone... Continue reading
Posted Aug 5, 2024 at omenti
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"exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known:
a minipost - an important podcast episode that could have a large impact on your health Eric Topol does cardiology and genomics at Scripps. He's also an excellent communicators and was one of a half dozen voices during the pandemic offering translations of the rapidly evolving results from research and... Continue reading
Posted Jul 21, 2024 at omenti
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tools for serious thinking
Om has mentioned several - often a fine pen, ink a... Continue reading
Posted Jul 7, 2024 at omenti
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celebrating beginnings
Posted Jun 30, 2024 at omenti
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heat and the paris games
It's wrong to hold a Summer Olympics in Tokyo in late July through early August. The right time for the Summer Games in many climates would be the Fall, but television schedules force the Summer. The combination of temperature and humidity can be dangerous. Endurance events, tennis and beach volleyball... Continue reading
Posted Jun 23, 2024 at omenti
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a title for a book or film
I have a long history of chatting with storytellers and found myself talking with a group of four today. Someone asked me to describe what fills me with awe. Somany possibilities, but I went with the early evolution of the universe. There are rough spots, but quite a bit is... Continue reading
Posted Jun 21, 2024 at omenti
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where goes art?
GOOSE -n A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very... Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2024 at omenti
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observing nature on bright moonlit nights
A bright moon can destroy an otherwise beautiful dark sky, but there are some things to look for. If you're around a waterfall that's producing mist - the type that regularly creates rainbows during the day - you can look for moonbows. Like rainbows, they'll be in the opposite part... Continue reading
Posted May 27, 2024 at omenti
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seeing like a data structure
A must read if you have any interest in the continuing arc of society and technology. Seeing Like a Data Structure by Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier is a great place for thought, discussion and personal action. I'd recommend it to anyone who creates, uses, invests in, manages is a... Continue reading
Posted May 25, 2024 at omenti
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the story of the soil
Posted May 13, 2024 at omenti
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music of the universe
Posted May 12, 2024 at omenti
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rings that rule
Posted May 9, 2024 at omenti
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working to improve women's sports
Being around elite female athletes you recognize female specific sports science, equipment and training is far below that enjoyed by males. People are surprised that women-specific soccer (football outside of the US) shoes only appeared in 2022 and many coaches of young women have never heard of RED-S, which can... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2024 at omenti
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the polkadot giraffe is waiting for the light to go green
a minipost Our minds are impressive at constructing imagery from words. Some of us like audio or printed books better than films because 'our minds are more visual than someone else's interpretation. So it came as a shock last year when my wife discovered she has a condition called aphantasia... Continue reading
Posted Apr 21, 2024 at omenti
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science vs policy and a wedge issue
Something a few of you have heard from me privately and something that may raise some eyebrows. Namely gender in lieu of biological sex in athletic events. It's generally agreed there are three important issues in sport: safety, fairness and inclusivity. Many sports have categories to promote fairness and even... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2024 at omenti
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higher order terms of good
A few days ago Om pointed to a fascinating video Scott Yu-Jan designed and then 3d printed a nifty and, from a cool design point of view, iPad dock for his Mac Studio. Chatting with Om I mentioned 3d printing (albeit metal printing) is used in ultra-low volume production of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2024 at omenti
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a bit of wilding in manhattan and brooklyn
A great feature of Bell Labs and later AT&T Research was the mentoring program. For years I was a Summer student and graduate student mentor. I was lucky enough to have been around some really outstanding people. A few years were particularly great - one of them had two remarkable... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2024 at omenti
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hard rockers and soft rockers
The Roadside Geology series has been around and growing for over 50 years. I have over a dozen and they're wonderful. Each focuses on the geology you'll see as you travel along roads in regions the US. They vary a bit in style given the variety authors and the publication... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2024 at omenti
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theia's last dance
a minipost We're less than a month away from the last North American total solar eclipse for a long time. The Earth-Moon system is odd for a number of reasons. How the Moon formed is still a puzzle, but evidence is getting much stronger and an odd fact about the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2024 at omenti
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the correct tools for the job
Every now and again I'm asked to be an outside member on a thesis committee. Every school I know of requires a member from outside the department and often outside the university. They're a lot of work, but they can be a lot of fun. At first you run into... Continue reading
Posted Mar 8, 2024 at omenti
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smart 'scopes
I've been around telescopes since I was ten or eleven. At first it was a very cheap 50mm refracting telescope my Merchant Marine uncle picked up on a trip to Japan. It had a tripod but, along with its terrible optical quality, was ill-suited for looking at the night sky.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 29, 2024 at omenti
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