It has been heartbreaking watching my daughter get excited about robot toys– and all of their fantastic behaviors that she has read about and seen in fictional shows — only to be ultimately disappointed at how lame they…
There are so many campus murders, usually with guns, that most of us are not too removed from them. Maybe you’ve been on campus during a shooting, and if not, then maybe you are colleagues or personal friends with people who have been though that trauma. How many degrees of separation are you…
The meeting hall for a student club.
An interesting study recently came out:
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects…
“I know I’m over time, I just have one more thing I want to tell you about, I think, …”
I practice my talks and try to nail the timing. I use the…
We just updated the preprint for the Cousa objective. It’s a big update.
Back in November 2020, we announced a design for a 20 mm working…
Scientific publishing is essentially a solved problem.
Research dissemination is almost free. For hundreds of years, humankind relied on printed material and postage or shipping to share their work….
This post will probably mean more to me than it means to any of you dear readers. But maybe someone will recognize a bit of themselves in it. Or maybe…
That’s not a typo. 58.6 square centimeters of detector area. It’s the Big Sky camera by Sphere Entertainment Co. I want to know more about that lens on the front too.
Maybe an upgrade for the next version of the ExA-SPIM?
What drives you?
I’ve been speaking with undergraduates a lot recently, consulting about their career plans, and the discussions can be interesting.
I tinkered a lot as a kid– taking things apart, modifying them, doing crude experiments. Maybe you did similar things. One time I found something interesting and shared it with mother….
From Dall-E, via Bing. The prompt was something about the Santa Barbara coastline with Washingtonia robusta palm trees and Lemon Gum Eucalyptus trees in the style of an Ansel…
About 13 years ago, I wrote a blog post on here about using catalogs as textbooks. I still do that, but catalogs are fading —…
I saw this quote, as a photograph of it jotted down on a whiteboard, and it made me smile.
I looked up the source. It’s freely available online. It’s an 1893…
In my optics classes, I often give a brief historical account of Galileo’s telescopes. A point I want to make in this post, is that part of the high performance of Galileo’s telescopes was obtained through careful final adjustments. We do the same thing with our optics, designing in correction collars, adjustable air gaps,…
Humphrey is a gentleman. We relax together after an intense day.
This is post is about suits. Most Labrigger readers will want to skip reading this one. I…
