Overheard at work today

• How wide is the Milky Way?

• That’s the first law of thermodynamics! [said in a really exasperated voice]

• Well, color-glass condensate IS really cool.

Love ya, Brookhaven. 

Tennis for Two, Anyone?

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by Michael Keller

Xboxers, lay down your controllers! Wii Player, hold that nunchuk to your heart for a moment of remembrance.

On Oct. 25, 1910, Dr. William Higinbotham was born. You might not know this American nuclear physicist who worked on radar displays and became a major voice among scientists advocating to stop the nuclear arms race, but you can thank him for being one of the first inventors of the video game and for that callus on your right thumb.

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