Happy Patriots Day! Links for you. Science:
Ion Torrent Gives Its DNA-Sequencing Box A Boost
How the War on Science Works--And How to Respond
Better Template Prep for Ion Announced
Is Sugar Toxic?
Other:
Behind the Abortion War
Stephen Colbert Cracks Himself Up Over Walgreens' Health Services
Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore?
The Republican Plan
Auto Draft
Cherishing Possessions and People
[Republican] Lindsey Graham Offers Stirring Defense of Government Spending: "Will Allow Us to Create Jobs"
9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes
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This guest post is written by Brookhaven physicist Thomas Roser, Chair of the Collider-Accelerator Department. Roser, who earned his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, worked at the University of Michigan before joining Brookhaven in 1991.
Some time back, I wrote about what you need to make a quantum computer.
Physics World has a nice news article about a new experimental development in quantum computing, based on a forthcoming paper from the Wineland group at NIST in Boulder.
One of the many physics stories I haven't had time to blog about recently is the demonstration of relativistic time effects using atomic clocks.
The article about Windows provides considerable amusement. I don't necessarily disagree with it but to quote executives from VMWARE, that is one of the developers of software (VMWARE Player and Fusion) to allow Windows to run on Macs (the other developer being Parallels) is rather fine.