Brad Roth·5d agoBob Park’s What’s New: July 17, 2026No, Bob Park — the physicist who wrote the What’s New newsletter for years — did not write this. Instead, I am imagining what Park would…
Brad Roth·5d agoGeorge Benedek (1928–2026)George Benedek passed away on July 5 at the age of 97. Benedek and his coauthor Felix Villars (1921–2002) wrote the three-volume text…
Brad Roth·Jul 10Bob Park’s What’s New: July 10, 2026No, Bob Park — the physicist who wrote the What’s New newsletter for years — did not write this. Instead, I am imagining what Park would…
Brad Roth·Jul 10MKUltra, Anti-Science, and Mind ControlMKUltra (pronouced M-K-ultra) was a covert Central Intelligence Agency research program carried out between 1953 and 1973 to investigate…
Brad Roth·Jul 3Bob Park’s What’s New: July 3, 2026No, Bob Park — the physicist who wrote the What’s New newsletter for years — did not write this. Instead, I am imagining what Park would…
Brad Roth·Jul 3The SemiquincentennialTomorrow we celebrate our country’s 250th birthday; the United States Semiquincentennial. Happy 4th of July to you all. I hope you have…
Brad Roth·Jun 26Bob Park’s What’s New: June 26, 2026No, Bob Park — the physicist who wrote the What’s New newsletter for years — did not write this. Instead, I am imagining what Park would…
Brad Roth·Jun 26Methodological Guidelines for Circadian Modeling of Daylight Saving TimeMost mornings I get an email from arXiv, an archive of preprints in the sciences, especially physics. (Here at the start of this post I…
Brad Roth·Jun 19Bob Park’s What’s New: June 19, 2026No, Bob Park — the physicist who wrote the What’s New newsletter for years — did not write this. Instead, I am imagining what Park would…
Brad Roth·Jun 19The Rest of the Story 6Ed was born in Taylorville, a small town in central Illinois, in 1912. Some of his earliest memories were of scavenging electronic…