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This Week Archive
Reports from London
Last week, John Ellis arrived in London for a meeting in the midst of a terrorist attack on the city's transit system. Despite the chaos, he made it to the meeting on foot. "Ironically, at our places around the table were provided images of the Deep Impact probe's recent collision with the comet Tempel 1," he writes. "We should perhaps treat comets with more respect: one of them may have Earth's number on it."
Gordon Watts followed news of the terrorist attacks on Flickr, an online photo-sharing application. "Watching the photos stream in over time was eerie. At first there were lots of television scrapes -- which aren't so interesting. But every now-and-then a picture someone took while stuck in a subway train would show up," he writes. "This is grassroots photo-journalism!"
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Parent + Physicist
Many Quantum Diarists struggle with being both active parents and exceptional physicists. Part of striking the right balance for some is taking parental leave. But, as Debbie Harris notes, some institutions and supervisors are more permissive than others. She proposes a "maternity leave rumor mill" Web site, "where people can look up how accommodating any one boss or institution might be about maternity leave."
David Waller returns to work after three months of parental leave. His first week is spent fixing a computer and catching up on reading. After being a full-time father, David writes, "it's been tough to concentrate on the kind of nit-picky details that physics is filled with."
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