Where’s My Phreakin’ Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded last week, and for the 50th consecutive year since I first took a course in the subject, I didn’t win. Excuse me if sound a tad bitter this […]
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded last week, and for the 50th consecutive year since I first took a course in the subject, I didn’t win. Excuse me if sound a tad bitter this […]
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Thursday morning, start of the long weekend for remote workers such as myself now in the seventh month of a two-week lockdown; no appointments, no boring conference calls, no “Zoom” meetings that crawl, not zoom, […]