Last update has been a while. Time flies when you are having fun...
On September 19th Neil deGrasse Tysson visited Portland and gave a lecture on Physics in the movies, from classics like '2001' and 'Back to the Future' to recent block busters like 'Gravity'. Good fun! He is one of the very few Physicists who made it into pop culture (he made it into DC Comic's Superman) and embraced it:
Less than two weeks later, Trevor Noah of 'The Daily Show' fame was in town - not to be missed, either! He found a very receptive audience in liberal, hipster Portland, of course. At that point, everyone was still laughing, given how the election was expected to go...
And finally, in early October, Roxane Gay ('Bad Feminist', also the first black female lead writer for Marvel Comics) gave the Atkinson lecture at Willamette.
Michaela was dismayed that - once again - I missed Halloween: this year's excuse was an invitation to give a talk at the ASSL/LAC conference in Boston...
November - Thanksgiving! As in all of the past few years, Billie and Rod invited us to a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner at their place. Good times!
As winter is coming, Michaela and I have started playing with Lego again. Helps to decompress and we continue to be delighted by the smart building strategies and tricks of the new Lego Modular sets:
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