Category: 1050: Hidden Menus; Tiny Waves

  • It’s hard to believe that summer is just about over. My kids return to school on Monday, my oldest is entering sixth grade and my youngest is going into the first grade. Each of my girls has her own level of excitement and denial about school starting back up. Both miss their classmates as summers…

  • Like a Regular Wave, Only Smaller

    In my last article about lasers, a reader pointed out that in the history of the laser started off as something called a MASER. These devices were identical in functionality to a laser, except the beam was composed of microwave radiation, rather than visible light energy. In researching for my article, I had actually come…

  • This week I’ve had a longer than usual morning commute. As it’s the last week of my kid’s summer vacation we’ve been staying at our camp about forty minutes from work. Normally my drive is about three minutes to get to the office. In the past week, I’ve observed a handful of trees beginning to…