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This Week Archive
Who’s going to pay for this?
President Bush presented his 2006 budget to Congress this week. Gordon
Watts responded
with a eulogy for the planned BTeV experiment at Fermilab, whose
funding was elimated. "Many of my friends were working on this project,"
he writes. "This will be devastating for them."
Peter
Steinberg and Jochen
Weller also speculate on the possible consequences of budget-cutting
for the laboratories where they work.
And Caolionn O’Connell offers a primer
in high-energy physics funding.
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Parents in science: Quantum Diarists speak up
Our previous This
Week discussed several Quantum Diarists’ reactions to Harvard
President Lawrence Summers’ comments on women in science. In response,
Sandra Leone elaborates
on the difficulties of balancing research and family life.
Frederic Deliot reminds us
that this struggle can also apply to fathers, as he knows from helping to
care for his financée’s daughter.
David Waller is another one of these
devoted dads: In perfect resonance with the debates over Summers’
comments, he announces that
he will be taking three months off to care for his baby girl
full-time. He assures us that he will continue blogging.
"If I am not successful in obtaining a permanent physics job, will I regret taking three months off to take care of Zoe?" David writes. "After some thought, I know the answer to the question is an emphatic no." |
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Physicists in love: a Valentine’s Day special
Quantum Diarists are not a sentimental bunch on the whole, but Caolionn O’Connell did get her sweetheart a lovely cake for his birthday. Will there be a Valentine’s Day encore?
On a more devious note, Gordon Watts describes the means that some male physicists use to get the women from other experiments to come to their parties -- without inviting the men. |
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