Politics is a lot tougher than physics.

Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s.

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.