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Sunday July 13, 2008 · 4:17 PM PDT

2008/07/13 · 16:17

The July issue of the Physics Today magazine has the theme of “Energy today and tomorrow.” While access to most of the articles on-line requires a subscription, two of them can be accessed for free at Physics Today. These are “Home photovoltaic systems for physicists” and “Education for the global energy challenge.”

Physics Today lies somewhere between peer reviewed journals and magazines such as Scientific American. It provides news about physics and physics education, and generally has three main articles of good quality. It is a publication of the American Institute of Physics.

There are other energy related articles that I will summarize in this diary, but the main motivation for this diary is to provide information from this issue about a new on-line energy research journal. The journal will be described after the jump, and then I will add summaries of some of the energy related articles in the July issue of Physics Today.

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Sunday March 30, 2008 · 2:37 PM PDT

2008/03/30 · 14:37

This is my first attempt at a diary, and the intent is to begin to understand how so many supporters of the two Democratic candidates can be so angry at the other side as to say that they won’t vote for the other in the GE.

As will become apparent, I have been a strong supporter of Barack Obama, and I would have thought that those who support Hillary Clinton would have little reason to keep their votes from Obama, should he win the nomination. I was very surprised to learn that I was wrong about this.

Along with a background in science, comes the tendency to look for rational explanations for surprising facts. As an Obama supporter, it was easy to understand why others would say that they will not vote for Hillary Clinton if she is nominated, but maybe I didn’t really understand this.

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A possible explanation for the anger