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Trump TweetAttacks Mexico
Putting Mexico in the same category as long-time war zones is exactly the kind of stereotype I actively try to counteract when teaching (I took my young children to Mexico last year--I would not take them to Syria). Trump's charge comes from a recent report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies and it specifically mentions Syria, though it cites only a Mexican government homicide report without any context.
The...
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Trump TweetAttacks Mexico
Putting Mexico in the same category as long-time war zones is exactly the kind of stereotype I actively try to counteract when teaching (I took my young children to Mexico last year--I would not take them to Syria). Trump's charge comes from a recent report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies and it specifically mentions Syria, though it cites only a Mexican government homicide report without any context.
The...
HUMANITIES
Monday Missive – June 19, 2017
Wonder Women — This past Saturday, my wife (Nancy) asked me, “So what do you want to do for Father’s Day?” I suggested that we go see the new Wonder Woman movie. “It seems more like a Mother’s Day movie to me,” she said, “but let’s go.” And so we did.
I had heard good reports about this movie, but I did not expect to like it as much as I did. I especially liked the depiction of the central character. I liked her...
NATURAL SCIENCES
Agents of Dreamland, by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Taking a brief break from posts on quantum entanglement — will be back with more on that subject soon! Meanwhile…
Caitlin R. Kiernan is a brilliant writer. This is an indisputable fact. Â Several years ago, I blogged about her beautiful, dark and haunting novel The Drowning Girl, a ghost story that I rank as not only a classic of the genre but a classic of literature. Â I also was awed by her 2009 novel The Red Tree (which I read but never blogged about, for some reason)....
What is quantum entanglement? Part 5: Making it happen
This is part 5 in a lengthy series of posts attempting to explain the idea of quantum entanglement to a non-physics audience.  Part 1 can be read here,  Part 2 can be read here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here.
So at this point we have an idea of what entanglement is, and some reassurance that it doesn’t ruin all of physics with its existence!  Now we turn to a very important question: how, in practice, do we produce entangled quantum particles?
In our discussions so...
