Early-life media adventures

Blake Stacey posted about how he blurted out “F equals ma” in first grade. That’s a tough one to beat, but it lets me tell my own first grade story wherein I was misquoted by the media.
For reasons unknown, the Corvallis Gazette Times wrote an article about my class. Maybe the teacher was actually teaching [...]

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Physics Nobels

The Nobel prize for physics has been announced. This year half of it goes to Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa and the other half to Yoichiro Nambu; all particle physicists.
As always, there is a lot of controversy with this choice. When I first heard the recipients my first thought, and I suspect almost every particle physicist [...]

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