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April 10, 2024 - Sad news from the particle physics community with the announcement of the death of Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, one of about a dozen physicists to propose the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson (and obviously the reason for their names), and the age of 94. He may be gone, but his contributions to the scientific community will last forever.
April 8, 2024 - Just a reminder that if you want to view the eclipse today, you must have either special eclipse sunglasses (ordinary sunglasses are not sufficient) or specialized solar filters. And for the love of sanity, do not follow the example of a few dozen people who during the last big eclipse rubbed sunscreen on their eyeballs!