Revenge Of The Slimeballs - Part 3
This is the third part of Chapter 3 of the book "Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at Fermilab". The chapter recounts the pioneering measurement of the Z mass by the…
More reads
Burgundy Wine Grapes: A Climate Change Story
If you believe in medieval accounts of wine harvest dates, Burgundy grapes are in crisis. A new look at dates of grape harvest from the last 664 years says wine grapes in Burgundy, eastern…
A Rehash Of Flawed Chemical Exposure Cost Burden Estimates
A few weeks ago, I came across a press release issued by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), a European-based non-governmental (NGO) organization dedicated to environmental health…
Jena's Roots In The Tree Of Life
Ernst Haeckel created the first phylogenetic ‘tree of life’ of organisms 150 years ago in Jena, and published it in his major work, the ‘General morphology of organisms.’ It allowed for us to see…