And here is Dan Freedman's original preprint: lss.fnal.gov/archive/1973...

Thanks to @sc.edu physics for an excellent visit and lively colloquium audience!

And do read "On Freedom," a challenging and inspiring work!

Chicago! youtu.be/6JNDa20HIz0

A thoughtful reminder of the enlightened National Defense Education Act of 1958, which immeasurably aided the development of US science and scholarship from Steven Greenblatt: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Happy 180th birthday to @sciam.bsky.social, a trustworthy and inspiring source of information (and occasional whimsy), and thanks to its exceptional staff for their insight and breadth of vision. SciAm was a beacon of my youth!

One of many pleasures of backpacking through Belgium on the GR5 (Hook of Holland to Nice) is the obligation to sample the local nectars: photos.app.goo.gl/rKMLpqeGCdX3...

The AAPT Awards Committee invites nominations for all AAPT awards, citations, and medals. Nomination deadline is December 1. ow.ly/bafO50MNP65 #AAPTAwards #AAPT #Physics #PhysicsTeachers #ITeachPhysics

The 16th International Neutrino Summer School opens today at Fermilab indico.fnal.gov/event/68891/

Anticipating the new academic year …

Slides from my July 28, 2025 talk, "Colliders: Evolution and Promise," at the GGI Workshop, Exploring the Energy Frontier with Muon Beams agenda.infn.it/event/47981/...

Fine obituary for my friend and colleague, Mary K Gaillard, who contributed greatly to the search for charmed particles and other key aspects of the standard model of particle physics: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/s...

In the footsteps of Galileo’s graduate students

As a new academic year approaches, please consider bit.ly/GraceSimplic... for a seminar course or enrichment.

When in Florence—I heartily recommend a visit to www.museogalileo.it

I foresee the next Carl Hiaasen deconstruction of Floridian high culture.

Intense and worthwhile workshop www.ggi.infn.it/showevent.pl...

For me: No evidence for Flavor Changing Neutral Currents

A question to open the day: For you, what is the most surprising result from the LHC?

Ebook versions of Gauge Theories on sale at 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Recommended (by me!) for your summer reading, now at a favorable discount for both print and ebook. www.amazon.com/Grace-All-Si...

Music for Independence Day, by American composer Charles Ives (originally for organ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yh...

@cmsexperiment.bsky.social in popular culture: kottke.org/25/06/large-...

RIP John Peoples, Fermilab's third director (1989–1999), a decisive scientific leader.

Newly published and worth your attention: Alec Nevala-Lee's riveting account of the life and work of Luis Alvarez (Nobel Prize 1968), bubble-chamber impresario, forensic analyst of dinosaur extinction, and much more. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

This week, Fermilab celebrates its 58th anniversary. My Fiftieth birthday tribute, "Fermilab's Greatest Hits" doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Publication day wishes to Frank Close for his fine Destroyer of Worlds www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/frank...

(Modest) altitude training in Kandersteg (Bernese Oberland CH) with my daughter Carter

For a primer before the Muon g–2 Collaboration presents its new measurement on Tuesday, June 3, at 10 am CT t.co/lkqoGzj4IN, see my Notes on Lepton Gyromagnetic Ratios, arxiv.org/abs/2105.07866 and a recent update of the standard-model expectation arxiv.org/abs/2505.21476

Warm congratulations to Daniela Bortoletto (Oxford), recipient of the European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction! www.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

Congratulations to @lhcb.bsky.social for first observation of 2P → 1S E1 transitions in the B_c system, indico.cern.ch/event/155051....

Competition for the world Xenon supply— www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...

RIP Mary K. Gaillard, inspiring pioneer of the standard model of particle physics — physics.berkeley.edu/news/remembe...

Until May 31: hard cover and electronic editions of Gauge Theories are on sale at 50% off, along with other @princetonupress.bsky.social titles: press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/... Amplifications and a few corrections at chrisquigg.com/gauge-theori...

RIP Jonathan Rosner, superb scientist, wonderful teacher, treasured colleague. Here he is with Hank Thacker on the summit of Mount Fuji in 1978, at sunrise, with a shrine we made to the b-quark.

Slides from my March 15 Munich Lecture, "From the 'Nuclear Mill' to the Large Hadron Collider … and Beyond," doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

RIP Richard Garwin, www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/s..., brilliant polymath and observer (with Lederman and Weinrich) of parity and charge conjugation nonconservation in the π-μ-e decay chain journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/..., setting the stage for precise measurements of the muon magnetic moment.

Deadline extended to 23 May!

Slides from my May 12, 2025, Munich Physics Colloquium, "The Night before Charmonium," doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Slides from my May 8 Munich talk for students and others, "Postcards from the Particle Frontier," doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The 2025 European School of High-Energy Physics (ESHEP2025) will take place in Benasque, Spain, 15-28 October 2025. indico.cern.ch/e/eshep2025 The deadline for applications is 16 May 2025. The school has a strong tradition and Benasque is a special place.

Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions is on sale at half price through May 31 from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Amplifications and a few corrections at chrisquigg.com/gauge-theori...

Slides from my talk, "Adventures with Fred and Quantum Mechanics," doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Today we celebrate the life and work of Fred Goldhaber, exemplary scientist scgp.stonybrook.edu/wp-content/u...

Please celebrate Independent Bookstore Day today! www.bookweb.org/independent-...

For its contributions to international understanding over seven decades, CERN is worthy of the #NobelPeacePrize, intended to recognize those who have “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, etc.” @cern.bsky.social

Splendid and generous primer on Chicago literature from @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...

A library is the soul of a community and librarians—celebrated today—are keepers of the flame. nationaltoday.com/national-lib...