Peter Steinberg shares the last logbook entry for the PHOBOS experiment at Brookhaven National Lab. But PHOBOS will live on through the data it collected, writes Peter: "Since data analysis can continue for years, collaborations have a much longer afterlife than the duration of the data taking."

Marcello Pavan blinks, and the major Canadian World Year of Physics gala he has been planning for months is over. The briefness of the occasion makes him nostalgic for his past life in physics, when "we'd plan experiments for YEARS, run the experiments for WEEKS or MONTHS, and then analyze the data again for YEARS."

Physics outreach
Outreach comes in many forms, as the Quantum Diarists have documented...

Tommaso Dorigo comes across a World Year of Physics poster in the Barcelona subway that highlights time dilation in special relativity.

Jochen Weller gives a public lecture at Fermilab on Dark Energy.

Peter Steinberg describes a walk on the beach through the eyes of a physicist at a meeting of members of Brookhaven Lab, the public, and government representatives.

Caolionn O'Connell seems to appear just about everywhere, including on PBS's NOVA, making her feel like "the Paris Hilton of physics -- totally over-exposed, but, thankfully, without the sex tape with slimy ex-boyfriend."