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May 5th, 2009
My wife’s hard drive crashed. I believe it was a mechanical failure, so pretty much no hope for recovery. Thankfully, I had a PuppyLinux CD in my office, so last week she had a functioning operating system that allowed her to check the weather and email. I bought a new hard drive and opted not [...]
Apr 29th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I was a bit down because I had two papers rejected and a grant proposal go un-funded. This week, I’m back on top (at least emotionally.)
Apr 20th, 2009
I was looking at search terms that lead people to this website from Google and stumbled across this one: “the work done by the magnetic field on the charged particle during the semicircular trip.” Someone obviously was interested in how much work a magnetic field could “do”, and Google was kind enough to point them [...]
Apr 11th, 2009
Within my first year on the tenure-track at a small, liberal-arts focused public university, I managed to land a 3-year, $300k National Science Foundation grant. I also got an article in press and made the papers in Lynchburg, Richmond, and Farmville. Not bad for my first year on the job.
My former research advisor told me [...]
Mar 15th, 2009
I am in Pittsburgh at the American Physical Society (APS) March meeting until Tuesday. Today was a series of workshops and talks on Physics Education Research (PER) as part of the pre-APS meeting for the Physics Teachers Education Coalition (PTEC).
First, I arrived last night (Saturday) and spent the evening the same way I always spend [...]