Some Skin in the Game

On neutrinos and nanoseconds: Physicists partner with professional timekeeper

In his job, Matsakis keeps the official time for the United States and the U.S. Department of Defense and, together with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, keeps the official time for the United States. This involves maintaining more than 100 atomic clocks and GPS systems calibrated to within one nanosecond of each other – not a simple task.

We had a nice seminar on what MINOS does and neutrino oscillations recently, as we kicked off this collaboration.

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

The Great Global Warming Fizzle

As with religion, its claims are often non-falsifiable, hence the convenience of the term “climate change” when thermometers don’t oblige the expected trend lines. As with religion, it is harsh toward skeptics, heretics and other “deniers.” And as with religion, it is susceptible to the earthly temptations of money, power, politics, arrogance and deceit.

Any time science gets compared to religion it just, as Dean Keaton might say, makes me tired all over. It’s where you go when you can’t actually discuss science, because you have nothing.