ASFO 2025–07–26

Back in Texas, working on blast №3, getting (or trying to get) other things done, considering a last–minute attempt at attending this year’s World Science Fiction Convention… Also speculation that politicians want to ban drugs because they compete with ideologies as intoxicants.

Supplementary Shows

  • 2025–07–29 From Nuclear Energy Today and Tomorrow, a collection of lectures given at the 12th International Science School for High School Students at the University of Sydney (Australia) in 1969, Science and Society by Dr David Z Robinson, Vice–President of Academic Affairs, New York University.
  • 2025–08–01 The companion lecture to the previous, Society and Science, which describes among other things the political process which led to the location of what became Fermilab.
A ring-shaped particle accelerator built in a craggy desert landscape
In 1948, 110 feet (33 meters) was considered a very large diameter for a ring–shaped particle accelerator. The diameter of the Large Hadron Collider is more than 250 times that.