News
August 18, 2012: NASA’s Curiosity Rover has landed on Mars. A lot of time an effort has gone in to scheduling what will be done there, when it will be done, how much time it will take, etc....
May 24, 2012: I was visiting a friend in the hospital a few months ago. She had a medicated IV drip line (an infusion pump) that allowed precise tuning of how much “stuff” was administered....
March 10, 2012: A new clock is coming to town, an atomic clock, and it’s 100 times more stable than the best atomic clocks we have right now....
December 22, 2011: I suspect very few people think about how long a day is, and of that number, fewer still wonder if the length of a day changes much, or what sort of things affect the length of the day....
September 13, 2011: I was looking for articles about really accurate clocks (OK, I’m using ‘accurate’ colloquially) and came across this one from late 2007, about How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in a Decade and I was just intrigued by some of the things I saw in there....