Rock and roll

Celebrating another Role Model in Science & Engineering Achievement! Rock and roll as we know it today would not exist without his invention --the solid body electric guitar. Little wonder legends like Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney and Eddie Van Halen consider him an icon. Throughout his life, Les remained an innovator as a guitar player and sound engineering pioneer. Read the full biography of Les Paul here.  
In which we ask, what would you do if you could change your own personal history? A Kind of Magic! - No, that is not a non-Higgs boson, it is the Astronomy Magazine competition to win a signed copy of Brian May's PhD thesis in astronomy. "To enter the contest, submit a short essay (200 to 500 words) that describes what you would do — what would your subject be and why? — if you could magically go back to school and earn a doctoral degree in astronomy. How would you change the astronomy world? What research subject would entice you? Planetary science? Cosmology? Galaxy investigations? And what…