Swans on Tea

Unlike some pursuits, in science new information sometimes means having to revise your conclusion. Just after snarking about how unscientific congress is, I read that Bill Foster, another physicist, has been elected to fill Dennis Hastert’s seat.
So the raising operator has been applied by the good people of the 14th district in Illinois, at [...]

Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?
An interesting article on the gender-representation issue in the sciences. Many assume it’s all sexism, but whenever somebody checks to see if that’s really the case, two things seem to happen: they come to the conclusion, “Not so much,” and they are often attacked [...]

Over at Physics and Physicists, ZapperZ has a short post on an interference experiment that looks like a useful apparatus to demonstrate some of the quirkiness of QM. It shows both single-photon interference and, since it’s a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, it’s also easy to show the “which-path” effect that washes away the fringes.