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March 31, 2024 - HAPPY EASTER!!
January 5, 2024 - With the new year comes some new plans (which I am not able to disclose yet), and with new projects must come the end of others. For that reason, among others, I won't be maintaining my science blog or several other pages on my website for the next six to eight months. There is nothing wrong, but I only have so much time in the week and this website is not a priority for now. Thank you for your support in the past and in the future, and I look forward to return in the Autumn!
January 1, 2024 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
December 25, 2023 - MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
October 31, 2023 - HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
October 30, 2023 - My annual pumpkin carvings are now complete, and the final results can be viewed here.
October 24, 2023 - To be honest, no one knows if we will have Halloween this year. But just in case we do, and for those of you who live in an area without too many infections, I will once again link to some great sources for pumpkin patterns, PumpkinGlow and Zombie Pumpkins, and give another self promoting link to the galleries of my own carving from Halloweens past.( 2001-2005,2005-2011, 2012-2018, 2019-2022 )
October 10, 2023 - Happy Thanksgiving Canada!! We live in one of the greatest countries in the world, in one of the best eras in history, and many will be celebrating this day with their loved ones (or if all else fails, their families). We truly have much to be thankful for today, and it is always worth taking the time to remind ourselves of that fact. Enjoy the holidays everyone!
October 3. 2023 - It has just been announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023 has been awarded to Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz for their research on the dynamics of electron systems. It is an interesting topic, which I will try to explain in more detail on my science blog at a later date, and is definitely deserving of the top prize in science. Congratulations to everyone involved!
August 17, 2023 - Over the last few days there have been two scientific announcements that have been heralded in the popular media as major breakthroughs, but which are not. I have written more detailed explanations of both on
my science blog, but the TL;DR version is as follows: (1) A team of researchers announced a room temperature superconductor, but after other teams tested the materials they found that they were not superconductors after all, and (2) the discrepancy between the predicted and experimentally measured value of the muon magnetic moment has now been measured to a five sigma level, but the discrepancy between three different methods of predicting this value is too large to definitively state whether this is an indication of a new force of nature, or simply an error in the original calculations were made. I will continue to provide updates on both stories as they become available.