My first storify. Some physics based on the information of the Philae's big bounce in this article

This week NYU hosted a Software Carpentry Bootcamp along with Berkeley and U. Washington (the other institutes in the Moore-Sloan data science environment). I sat in on the python classes (there were also classes in R). However, on Monday, there was a huge announcement from the BICEP2 collaboration about the …

See my blog post over at QuantumDiaries on an analogy about the fine tuning problem related to the Higgs boson.

"The Higgs Boson: A Natural Disaster!"

[A guest post for INSPIRE originally posted here.]

We are familiar with the critical role of INSPIRE in searching for papers, following references, tracking the citations, and providing author profiles.  Now INSPIRE is taking steps to extend this service to data, thus creating a rich new layer to the information …

[originally posted on Quantum Diaries]

The discovery of the Higgs boson is a major step forward in our understanding of nature at the most fundamental levels. In addition to being the last piece of the standard model, it is also at the core of the fine tuning problem -- one of …

Recently I've been more involved in communication, education, and outreach activities via the "Snowmass" Community Summer Study.  One of the goals we discussed was to get to the point that the public is more aware of the fundamental particles.  Ideally, we'd like something as iconic as the periodic table (which …