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Group masters science of bird-counting to gather data

Hmm, 3 guys walk around through the trees and the margins between trees, river, and farm fields, looking for birds.
Hard hitting reportage.
Now if these three explorers found some jobs north of the river.....oh, never mind.

December 18, 2011 at 4:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU faculty, students taking part in research involving Higgs boson at CERN laboratory in Switzerland

What do feelings have to do with anything? If they found sufficient Higgs interactions to characterize them, great. If they maybe kinda, sorta saw "evidence" that they might have seen them.....well call me when you have something to report.
Stories aren't reality, parrothead. Feelings are for wimps. The term dissatified has been used above. Are you satisfied with modern science? Really? Drink green tea, no drink red wine, no just chew on elderberries......and on and on and on. Useless non-science sullying the name.

The public should be told of the sorry state of experimental science. The history of all the gadgets that people are so happy with would make them question what science has been doing for the last 50 years.

December 16, 2011 at 4:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU faculty, students taking part in research involving Higgs boson at CERN laboratory in Switzerland

Zac, you speculate. You don't know anything about me, or what patents I have or work I have done.
But this much should be clear to you: Fundamental physics, post 1960, has generated no new industries for decades. The only fundamental force that is controllable is the electromagnetic force. It can be used for energy, information, and building of materials. Gravity, weak and strong nuclear forces just are. They cannot be modulated or mitigated.
Economists tell us that our current economic slump is due to various financial follies and foibles.

Not true. Such shenanigans have always been around. Nope, the reason for the current economic difficulty is that computers replaced mid-level jobs. Productivity has increased for decades due to replacing of clerks. Further compounding the economic trouble is that there are no new fundamental industries because electromagnetics is about played out.

And all that high energy physics and astronomy is just narrative. All talk, no walk.

"Green" was supposed to be that new industry. It is all subsidy, and no energy. It is collapsing under the volume of fossil fuel production coming from frakking. The oil patch is hiring. Green is laying off.

As far as elections are concerned......forget it. Industry hires people, not governments. Electing democrat or republican clowns matters little. Jobs are needed, government can't create them, and science is stuck. Buy oil. My oil stocks are quite healthy and my GE stock is not.

December 16, 2011 at 7:26 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU faculty, students taking part in research involving Higgs boson at CERN laboratory in Switzerland

Innovation comes from fundamental science and garage-based dreamers. No fecund science has occured in 60 years. Big government has squashed the inventor.
We loose jobs and seem immune from financial fixes. Maybe because there just isn't anything new coming along to build new industries.

There are a lot of dissatisfied people in this world. And the lack of useable physics is just one of several reasons why jobs are so scarce.

December 15, 2011 at 10:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU faculty, students taking part in research involving Higgs boson at CERN laboratory in Switzerland

I'm an engineer. I have had no use for any fundamental physics discoveries from the past 60 years.
All the stuff you have around you resulted from the physics that predates strangeness, charm, and all the other descriptions of the world that are useless.
It is called subatomic interactions and it is descriptive but uncontrollable. It cannot be modulated. It cannot be used for information transfer, energy storage, or any of the other things that have been invented over the last 50 years or so......and need improvement today.

The story of subatomic physics is one of abstraction. Pure abstract narrative with no application. Oh wait, my Josephson junction computer needs an injection of charm to correct its quantum number........hahaha.

The speed of information is still 3 times 10 to the 8th meters per second. And storing wind kinetic energy via the strong force is.........? Yawn. Wake me up when you guys find something other than violations of cause and effect. Interesting...and definably useless.

December 15, 2011 at 10:26 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KU faculty, students taking part in research involving Higgs boson at CERN laboratory in Switzerland

No Zac, they are referring to the rate at which data is captured. Parallel sampling is used. Nanosecond sample-and-holds are used. Amazingling fast data capture results. The total sample time is tiny.......microseconds. But sample rates are stupendous.

And they think that they might, possibly, have glimpsed.........the existence of an odd new particle that is maybe an Higg's boson.......

A tiny step in the process. Unless and until they create billions of them everytime they run an experiment, they don't know squat. The existence of such particles isn't the goal. The properties of the particle is the goal. And that takes a bunch of them.
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I think the researchers are breaking into a sweat. I think Higgs is not revealing itself like they thought it would and a multinational, multibillion dollar effort might yield.......squadoosh. Politically unacceptable, right at the very time that Europe fails economically, they produce a giant scientific boondoggle. Dangerous times are happening in Europe. TIny victories at CERN are tiny happy news in an otherwise bleak scientific landscape.

The Greeks will claim that the French won't help them because they are too busy building useless contraptions that look for the "God Particle".
Setup for failure.

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Note to the KU sophomore who aspires to physics greatness. Play the political game as long as you can. Then come back to Kansas and work on a pipeline through the western part of the state. Make money. Forget the world of science as politics. You will be disappointed.

December 15, 2011 at 7:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Life sentence set in Kansas drug trafficking case

I am a science teacher, bozo.
The thugs who might steer away from crime are immune to science education and you know it. They are offered a life that satisfies them more than knowledge. Sex, drugs and wild times await them for the next few years if they skip school, bang with the gang, and sell drugs.
They live a life that is short, brutal, and fun.

And that is what they wish. Science education? Come on bozo........you sound like an old fuddy-duddy.

Jobs from science? Where have you been. bozo? There hasn't been a real scientific breakthrough that led to jobs in decades. All the stuff you use that came from science is from science of pre-1960.

Oh wait, my DNA computer is telling me that my mu-meson generator is needing more strange attractors.......hah.

December 13, 2011 at 7:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Report shows Lawrence meeting goal to lower greenhouse gas emissions

Meanwhile, Europe goes broke and stops multiple alternative energy projects because they can no longer afford the subsidies. And China, India, Brazil laugh at the notion that economic growth should be limited in any way by a lack of energy, so they dam rivers, build nukes, and burn coal like crazy.

And in Durban, the third world tells us all that they need money for their energy projects. Most of that money goes into the chief's airplane and security staff. And promises are made to those guys in the fancy garb....but nothing is ever done that makes much difference.

Yawn. Climate change is not on the radar for the upcoming election. It is a non-issue. AGW is a relic. The temperature of the world hasn't changed in 11 years...........Yawn.

Where are the jobs?
Green jobs.
Oh wait, there's one. Count it. A job! Hooray for government...it created a job!

December 1, 2011 at 8:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Offbeat occupations: Site director lives at Lawrence Community Shelter

Black Friday specials......at LCS:

Hair shirts. 50% off.

"Dr. B", the young student said. "Why don't they pick up their own cigarette butts?"

I had no answer.

November 28, 2011 at 8:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KDHE secretary advises KU pharmacy students to get to know their legislators

The definition of knowledge today is: access.
Engineering students are selected on the basis of "leadership", SELF scholarships.
No doubt all preferred students at all levels are selected on the basis of "access" to the government funding agencies that control the endeavor.
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You live in the borg.
Science, engineering and all science-based endeavors are controlled by government funding agencies.
Innovation is proscribed.
Pharmacy, electronics, physics.......it is all predestined politics. 50 years ago Ike predicted as much. Science is now a predetermined verification of the politically expedient.

Right wing, left wing, KDHE secretary........meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

And job creation goes down and down and down.........

November 28, 2011 at 8:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )