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Showing a Different Way
Danica McKellar (the actress who played the girl "Winnie" in that show "The Wonder Years" that many of you might remember) has been working to try to encourage young girls to go more for "Cute and...
View ArticleStill So Far To Go
Sometimes one deludes oneself into thinking that progress has been made on some important social issue, and then out of the blue, there’s a reminder of just how far things still have to go. Check out...
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Good Luck Brittney Exline!
Just spotted this AP article (by Kathy Matheson) about Brittney Exline: [...] at the age of just 15 she is beginning her Ivy League career Wednesday when classes start at the University of...
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Home School
This is very interesting to me. I just heard a story (by Nancy Mullane) on NPR's Weekend Edition about home schooling. (The link is here, and audio will be available at that page shortly). It focuses...
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What Matters?
I'll let you know. Huh? Today, I've to think about two things I have to talk about over the next couple of days. I've to give a physics seminar on Thursday at UCSB, but more urgently, I have to think...
View ArticleSome of What Matters
Below I've reproduced the text of the approximately 20 minutes of that which I presented at the What Matters to Me and Why event on Wednesday. I mentioned my preparations for it in a previous post. The...
View ArticleSwept
Not a big surprise, but a notable event nonetheless - the top Siemens Mathematics, Science and Technology annual prizes were all taken by girls this year. From the New York Times*: Janelle...
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NSBP and NSHP
I learned from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein* (an occasional commenter here) that it is time to register for the joint NSBP and NSHP (National Society of Black Physicists and National Society of Hispanic...
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DC Crossover
I find myself in Washington DC for two and a half days, attending an interesting conference. It's the annual meeting of the National Society of Black Physicists* (NSBP), and I've been invited to give a...
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Haitch
There was a sweet, sweet moment during the afternoon Cosmology, Gravity, and Relativity session on Friday. (See here.) I don't think I'll be able to convey its full intensity to you, but I cannot let...
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When Worlds Collide IV: The Verdict is…
So you'll recall the shoot last year, right? Casino Royale theme? Where I got all dressed up in a Tuxedo at a club in New York that was kitted out as a Casino playing blackjack and so forth (click...
View ArticleTales From The Industry XXII – Live LHC Chats
Just the other day, while coordinating some work being done on my house, I was thinking that it is time I learned Spanish. Most of the people working in the construction industry here in Los Angeles...
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Apollo
I've been running around so much today I forgot to actually mention the event for which I'll be acting as host tonight, here at USC. This is how I quickly described it to my colleagues, but bear in...
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Michael Jackson and D-Branes
Well, I bet you have not read any articles connecting Michael Jackson and research in string theory before. No, even though I spend a lot of time and effort trying to bring science into everyday...
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Presidential Star Party
This is a photo I borrowed from Dara Norman's blog post over on NSBP's Vector. It is about the star party held over at hhe White House in October of this year. It looks like it was a lot of fun! Er,...
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Back on the Trail
So have you been to Griffith Park recently? I went for a short hike there this morning for the first time in a month or so. The first time this year. (I've not been hiking much the last month due to...
View ArticleNot Entirely Alone
Does this description seem familiar? Black scientist, born in 1968. Born in London to immigrant parents. Spent a fair amount of time in their school years convincing teachers to not assume that they...
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Inspiration and Dedication
You might not have heard of him, so I thought I'd mark the passing, on Tuesday, of the mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante. (Photo on right by Robert Gauthier.) He was an extraordinary teacher who...
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Becoming Engaged…
It turns out that a really great way of passing the time when listening to someone give a talk is to do some sketch practice. [... wait, what? The post title? Oh! No, no, don't be silly. Ok., let me...
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