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**And some weird politics was going on. When I saw him he was in the OpSci Center, NOT the physics building. Turned out he was -for all practical purposes- evicted from the physics building because we wasn't doing much publishing anymore. OpSci snatched him up, gave him an office, and took prospective students around to show off the Nobel laureate. only slightly weird for Academia />:

This could turn into a very long thread if we really try to answer this one. That never stopped us before! I really have to wonder about this. What is it here that leads to this? Europe (France) has as much urbanization as we do (Paris is huge, for example). Or maybe it's just a reflection of a lower murder rate overall: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murde... No...they have 40% of the murder rate we do, but only...

Do atheists hate diversity? Is the very act of atheist activism (trying to persuade people that atheism is correct and working to change the world into one without religion) an act of attempted conformity? Are atheists trying to create a drab, gray, uniform world, where everyone else is just like them? It's probably pretty obvious that I think the answer is a big fat "No!" (Probably said in the Ted Stevens voice.) But...

Was it perhaps he thought the Texans would build the LHC there? No, if they were going to build anything there, it would have been the long-since cancelled Superconducting SuperCollider, and it would have been at Waxahachie (near Dallas/FW). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Supercollider

I read that about Texas A&M- about the same time frame. And I believe the Aggies have a stable full of Nobel laureates in the sciences. I was thinking that it was a general restructure of all state institutions and had something to do with oil money. But that was a long time ago and I really didn't pay that much attention to it. So I could be way off base.

Knowing we have a lot of Texans on this board (yours truly included) I ask myself, how did Austin become such a liberal city in the conservative state in Texas? I would imagine, having absolutely no evidence whatsoever to back up my hunch, that capitol cities would tend to mirror their state government. Any ideas? The governors mansion didn't always house Rick Perry. There has been a long line of popular Democratic/liberal governors....

Why don't you little ladies hush up and get in the kitchen like Uncle Jeebus wants you to. Maybe if you're lucky, someday you can end up like this poor fellow. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230092/Ro...

just barely <g> i only know about it because one of my Army buddies was a grad. he said it was one of the best schools in the solar system .. i was skeptical = .... someone with some google-Fu can find out which is 'more respected' Here's my totally scientific and not at all subjective experiment. ;) http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%2... Hey, looks like UT wins by about three to win....

This is one of those sappy posts, so please skip it if you don't like those. (I normally don't myself, so I'll understand. :) I have so much I am grateful for. I wanted to thank some of the people (most of whom will never read this) and other forces to which I owe a debt of gratitude. I'm thankful for my wife. She's my best friend. She's the major source of happiness in my life. She's the axis around which...

Sacramento is one of the most boring cities in Calif. Vouch. Ishtar