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The author of Skulls in the Stars is a professor of physics, specializing in optical science, at UNC Charlotte. The blog covers topics in physics and optics, the history of science, classic pulp fantasy and horror fiction, and the surprising intersections between these areas. -
Category Archives: Travel
An American in Spain, part 5: Seville Cathedral
Part 5 of a photo travelogue of my recent trip to Spain with my wife and her family! (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) Updated some descriptions thanks to commenter VA! When we woke up on Monday morning, the massive … Continue reading
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An American in Spain, part 4: Onward to Seville
Part 4 of a photo travelogue of my recent trip to Spain with my wife and her family! (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) On Sunday, we got up relatively early to catch a train from Madrid to Seville. The train … Continue reading
An American in Spain, part 3: Palaces and parks in Madrid
Part 3 of a photo travelogue of my recent trip to Spain with my wife and her family! (Part 1, Part 2) As I’ve noted in the past parts of this travelogue, our hotel in Madrid was located very close … Continue reading
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An American in Spain, part 2: Art and Egypt in Madrid
Part 2 of a photo travelogue of my recent trip to Spain with my wife and her family. Though my wife and I had arrived in Spain smoothly on Thursday the 29th of March, things didn’t go so well for … Continue reading
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An American in Spain, part 1: Madrid
At the end of March, I had the great opportunity to take a trip to Spain with my wife and her family. My wife’s niece is spending a college semester in Granada, and we traveled out to visit her during … Continue reading
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Science Online 2012: A visit to the North Carolina Museum for Natural Sciences
The second of a series of posts chronicling my observations and experiences at Science Online 2012, which I attended last week. I love museums! My parents, especially my father, started taking me to science museums and zoos in the Chicago … Continue reading
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A short travel note…
I was hoping to queue up a few blog posts for the next week, but didn’t manage to find the time to do so. I’m traveling to Toronto for a meeting for the next few days, so the blog will … Continue reading
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A visit to Mount Hope Cemetery
While in Rochester, NY for the Frontiers in Optics 2010 meeting of the Optical Society of America, the wife and I had a little free time available to take a tour of the lovely and venerable Mount Hope Cemetery. Founded … Continue reading
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Streets of the optical scientists!
This post is a repost of some proto-blogging I did on my department web page when I was a post-doc in Amsterdam. The web page is gone, now, so I thought I’d revise the essay significantly for the blog here. … Continue reading
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Swimming (well, kneeling) with stingrays!
This past week I’ve been rather quiet about blogging and tweeting because I’ve been on vacation with the Wife and some of her family in Myrtle Beach, SC. We just returned yesterday and had a quite nice time, though like … Continue reading
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