Dark Matter Lab dedicated at Sanford

This week, the Sanford Lab dedicated an underground science fortress to research dark matter. The lab is 5,000 feet underground in the mountains of South Dakota, shielded from cosmic radiation.
The lab is on a site that used to do physics research, and was a gold mine before that. The current Sanford Lab, in collaboration with [...]

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Frog Spawning Areas

This is the best year I have seen in the past 2 decades for even the most marginal tadpole habitat. Usually there are significant portions of the frog spawning ditches, seasonal ponds etc. that dry up before a large number of tadpoles can fully develop.
Last year was typical. There are some path-side ditches near my [...]

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Wednesday Book Club

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
-Aldous Huxley

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Someone said something the other day and used a phrase I remember from reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I don’t remember the phrase but it had to do with Ford (and other US auto companies). I was reminded of how [...]

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