If you follow newspapers, facebook, or twitter, you’ve undoubtedly seen these already – but the LHC has done it – managed to collide two beams of protons! They never made it that far last year. Here is an event from ATLAS: That isn’t to say...

Hi. My name is Gordon, and I’m 43 years old, and I’ve never been to a town meeting. I guess my kid finally made me see the light of day, admit I had a problem, and attend. Ok, I know, not such a big deal. I suspect that most people haven’t been...

Windows has had this very nice feature called a “preview pane” ever since Vista. I think just about everyone (certainly on a Mac and on Windows) is familiar with this thing – you click on a text file or a C++ source file or a PowerPoint...

I’ve been pretty bad at posting this – I keep meaning to, but I keep not having time! But I have to send congratulations out to George and Remi for getting their Ph.D.’s: They entered graduate school on the same day and the only reason they...

In particle physics this is what we do. We have petabytes (1000 terrabytes!) datasets consisting of billions of physics interactions. For the particularly rare ones we need to pick out several 100 or 1000 and study them in detail. As you might expect,...