LHC, Physics Envy and Presidents
Two things that are going on which everyone seems to be writing about, except me:
The Large Hadron Collider. This is freakishly cool and awakens the physics envy in me. Biology never gets this much attention. Except that when I think about it, I realise that it’s not actually physics that’s getting everyone’s attention, but engineering. People’s interest is only peaked when there are cool gadgets involved, such as mars rovers and particle accelerators. So while it might annoy me that not everyone thinks tardigrades surviving in space or bees chasing away predators by shaking their asses is as cool as I think it is, neither does the man on the street consider the finer points of quantum physics particularly interesting.
The US presidential election. I’m hopeful and terrified all at once. Need I really say more?
Now a picture of a tardigrade (taken by myself, no less), because they’re just so cute:
