The Banana Peel Project

The search for the Higgs boson was one of the central reasons for the construction of the CERN particle physics laboratory, and the potential discovery of what journalists and pop scientists excitedly call the “God particle” has spurred international scientific collaboration on a massive scale.  At the same time, the Higgs boson has called attention […]

In my ongoing series of posts on technologies of sight, I have mostly been talking about how supercomputers have begun to play a significant role in how we think about science and simulation. But supercomputers are far from the only tool that have extended our sense of sight into new dimensions. In this […]

Annie Jia has just published a wonderful short piece for the Stanford Report on how the miracle of engineering that is Gravity Probe B represents significant advances in scientific knowledge.
She also runs a great blog.
[the banana peel project]