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I received my Ph.D. in Physics from The City University of New York. My areas of interest are in the angular momentum of light, web technology, and alternative energy sources.
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Nov
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Vienna Bound.

And I’m off! (in a few hours)

Leaving for Vienna today for a conference where I am presenting a poster on Airy beams.  No, they are not full of air!  They are laser beams that actually travel along a curved path!  Usually lasers follow a straight path. Not these guys…

Anyway, Vienna should be interesting. Never been.  I hear they have good schnitzel!

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Nov
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…somebody ought to call Steve Jobs, who doesn’t need to be bribed to do innovation, and ask him if he’d like to do national service and run a car company for a year. I’d bet it wouldn’t take him much longer than that to come up with the G.M. iCar.
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Thomas Friendman. Op-Ed Columnist - How to Fix a Flat - NYTimes.com

Too good ta pass posting!

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Calling Tina Fey. Here’s Palin defending herself on the contention that she got confused about Africa: “My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.” And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.
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Maureen Dowd. Op-Ed Columnist - Boxers, Briefs or Silks? - NYTimes.com

First.  I can’t stand that this woman is STILL in the news.

Second.  There should be a rule.  No talking about the 2012 presidential race for at least another two years!  We just went through a 2+ year election cycle… give us a break!

Third. Did you just read that quote? Come on! Give me a break!

That is my ROTD (Rant of the Day)

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Nov
11th
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Food Hacks: Microwave an Instant Chocolate Cake in a Coffee Mug This looks interesting… hmmmm
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Nov
7th
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Smule: Ocarina Truely AWESOME!  If I had an iPhone this would be on it immediately!
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Nov
6th
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The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.
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America Serves | Change.gov

This is a great thing for this country!

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Change.gov Just one of the reasons our next President of the United States (POTUS) is a cool character and a breath of fresh air…
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.
— Jack Handey
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Theres Free Labor in Video Games - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog The idea of “crowdsourcing” to improve society in some way or solve seemingly insurmountable problems is a topic that I have been discussing with a few people for a couple of years now.  This link gives two interesting examples of this!
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Nov
5th
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Whiteboard Pong = Awesome!  (via: Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide)
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