RadioLab interviewed writer Kent Meyers about the Sanford Underground Research Facility and the small signal resulting from dark matter detection. Meyers gave an amazing analogy of a whisper.
The universe whispering to us.
The whisper in human nature.
The whisper is the point when we really
We want to speak intensely to a single person.
We whisper at funerals
We whisper in the presence of awesome things in nature.
It's that sense.
Reduced use of the voice.
Drops down and drops down
Only goes in the ear it was intended for
http://www.radiolab.org/story/xenon/
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Orlando and Leadership Reflections
The mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando is awful tragedy. Acts of leadership often emerge from tragedies, trials, and immense challenges. Here are three quotes that reflect solid leadership in the aftermath of this tragedy.
"And he said we just - we need the president to help us to start to heal, to stabilize this community because we've gone through such a trauma. And so we appreciate so much that he - you know, the busiest man in the world took time out to come see us and give his condolences."
--German Lemus, Orlando artist in public radio interview commenting on President Obama's visit.
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482362913/obama-biden-visit-with-victims-of-orlando-mass-shooting
"He hugged me like a brother."
Family member of victim on President Obama visit, in a public radio story.
From a New York Times article by Julie Hirschfeld Davis: "He grasps for words of sympathy, comfort and condolence and offers long, tight embraces that the mourners will remember far more vividly than his words. His visit to Orlando came four days after the massacre. Accompanied by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the president entered the Amway Center, about two miles from the club, and the two men took turns hugging and grieving with the scores of people who lost sons, daughters, siblings, partners and friends."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/us/politics/obama-orlando-shooting.html
"An attack against gay Americans in Orlando is an attack against each one of us."
--Dr. Ronnie Floyd, outgoing president, Southern Baptist Convention, during an annual meeting
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482362969/southern-baptist-convention-urges-churches-to-welcome-refugees
"And he said we just - we need the president to help us to start to heal, to stabilize this community because we've gone through such a trauma. And so we appreciate so much that he - you know, the busiest man in the world took time out to come see us and give his condolences."
--German Lemus, Orlando artist in public radio interview commenting on President Obama's visit.
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482362913/obama-biden-visit-with-victims-of-orlando-mass-shooting
"He hugged me like a brother."
Family member of victim on President Obama visit, in a public radio story.
From a New York Times article by Julie Hirschfeld Davis: "He grasps for words of sympathy, comfort and condolence and offers long, tight embraces that the mourners will remember far more vividly than his words. His visit to Orlando came four days after the massacre. Accompanied by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the president entered the Amway Center, about two miles from the club, and the two men took turns hugging and grieving with the scores of people who lost sons, daughters, siblings, partners and friends."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/us/politics/obama-orlando-shooting.html
"An attack against gay Americans in Orlando is an attack against each one of us."
--Dr. Ronnie Floyd, outgoing president, Southern Baptist Convention, during an annual meeting
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482362969/southern-baptist-convention-urges-churches-to-welcome-refugees
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