I know I already linked to the beginning of Chad’s series on the Tools of the Cold-Atom Trade, but Tools of the Cold-Atom Trade: Magneto-Optical Traps is good stuff, MOTs are also the workhorse of research I’ve been doing for 20+ years, and I was short of time last night as a fire alarm in my apartment building (kitchen/cooking incident, minor damage but 7 trucks plus support vehicles showed up) performed an act of bloggus interruptus.