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An End to ‘Virtual Strip Searches’ with Whole-Body Scanning?
Jul 29, 2011 — Sometimes less transparency can be a good thing. At least, the Transportation Security Administration is hoping it is. The TSA endured a bit of a firestorm last year after implementing whole-body scanners utilizing millimeter wave and backscatter X-ray technologies in airport security lines across the U.S. Travelers and privacy groups alike expressed concern because the scanners – especially the backscatter X-ray scanners – revealed precise anatomical details, amounting to &ldquo...
Fashion Goes Hi-Tech, Katy Perry Literally Sparkles
Jun 30, 2011 — Light-emitting diodes have long played a role in fashion. Mostly, they have inhabited the end of the fashion spectrum dominated by kid’s shoes and Rudolph sweaters with light-up noses. This is starting to change, though. In recent years we...
Satellites, Remote Sensors Shed Light on Subterranean Structures
Jun 17, 2011 — We all know that the lost city of Tanis is “one of the possible resting places of the Lost Ark” … those of us, anyway, who grew up thrilling to the exploits of the swashbuckling academic Indiana Jones. But now archaeologists may...
Who Wants to Live Forever? Steven Seagal, That’s Who
May 27, 2011 — It’s been quite a couple of weeks for erstwhile Hollywood action heroes. First, Arnold Schwarzenegger disgraces both the Mr. Olympia crown and the Terminator franchise by fathering a child with his family’s housekeeper. And now we learn...
Military Money in Optics Research
May 19, 2011 — As federal funding for research has generally stagnated over the past decade or so, investigators have sought other sources of support, including grants from the military and assorted security agencies. To be sure, optics technologies have been...
3-D ‘Erotic Comedy’ Scores Big in Hong Kong
Apr 28, 2011 — It was bound to happen, of course. With 3-D ever more popular at the box office, it was only a matter of time before 3-D porn started popping up in the theaters. Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy — a remake of a 1991 Hong Kong movie of the same...
US Seeks to Clamp Down on Student Visa Abuse
Apr 18, 2011 — Recent cases have shined a light on the labrynthine world of student visas in the US, revealing weaknesses in the system and leading to calls for reform. In January, US agents raided Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, Calif. and charged it with...
Urban Zen, Hand-knitted Spacemen and STEM Education
Mar 24, 2011 — NASA has lately reached out to girls and young women in its efforts to attract and retain students in science, technology, engineering and math. It has partnered with the Foundation for Advancing Women Now (FFAWN), created by singer Mary J. Blige,...
Who Needs an Educated Workforce?
Mar 7, 2011 — Outrage, it seems, is a fickle mistress. In recent weeks we have seen enough fury about the deficit and ostensibly related wedge issues to fuel…I dunno, a highly inefficient fury machine. Other concerns, though, just haven’t inspired...
A New Dawn for (Research in) Egypt
Feb 22, 2011 — The historic events in Egypt this month brought together broad swaths of the country’s population, unified in their demands for sweeping reform and the return of freedoms denied them over the course of Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. Among...
Researchers to NIH: “If It Ain’t Broke…”
Feb 3, 2011 — Investigators in optical imaging and other biomedical fields are troubled by developments at the National Institutes of Health, where the creation of a new research center will lead to the dismantling of an older one, which many look upon as an...
A Pig and a Chicken Open a Diner…
Jan 24, 2011 — Andrew Hargadon has worn many hats over the years. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he found himself in Silicon Valley in the early nineties – he was one of the self-proclaimed “geniuses” working for Apple at the time – and...
BiOS Hot Topics: Looking Forward, Looking Back
Jan 24, 2011 — The BiOS portion of Photonics West kicked off this weekend, with the first day culminating in a lively Hot Topics session at the Moscone Convention Center here in San Francisco. Drawing a capacity crowd, the session focused on both clinical and...
The Road to P West
Jan 10, 2011 — I may have mentioned a time or two before: I am an inveterate road tripper, an unapologetic bird of passage, an excursionist in the grand arcades and back alleys of mythic America. In my book no motel is too seedy, too riddled with bullet holes. And...
Keep Your Friends Close…
Jan 3, 2011 — We all know about advances in communications technologies – from email to Skype, from wikis to document sharing systems. And we know how they facilitate greater inter-institution and even international collaborations between researchers,...
The Changing Face of Higher Education in England
Dec 28, 2010 — Students have taken to the streets of London in recent months to protest a controversial bill that would raise tuition at universities in England to as much as £9000, from the current rate of £3290. And in several instances the...
The Legacy of TRON: Light Freaking Cycles
Dec 13, 2010 — From Olivia Wilde to Daft Punk, to a Crazy Heart-era Jeff Bridges sharing the screen with a facsimile of his c. 1985 self, TRON: Legacy offers an embarrassment of riches for devotees of the original TRON movie. Only one of these, though, appeals...
A Christmas Without Optics
Nov 29, 2010 — If you know me at all you know I’m a huge fan of the Peanuts Halloween special, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. It is by far my favorite of the many television offerings from Charles Schulz and company: a tale of a boy against...
Britton Chance: 1913-2010
Nov 24, 2010 — The optics community lost a friend and elder statesman last week. On the morning of Tuesday, November 16, Britton Chance died quietly in the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania. He was 97. Dr. Chance had a long, celebrated career. He...
Up Close and Personal: The Stigma of Mental Illness
Nov 15, 2010 — A word to the wise: If you see Glenn Close in the security line at the airport, don’t approach her and say in a small, almost mousy voice: “Excuse me, are you who I think you are?” It’s not that she doesn’t like to meet...
Big. Daguerreotype Big.
Nov 8, 2010 — Who was the first person ever to be photographed? A president? A general on the eve of battle? An assistant to a tinkerer somewhere, sort of the Mr. Watson of the camera obscura set? We don’t know who he was, actually. We know only that he...
Is Jackass 3D Messing With Your Head?
Oct 25, 2010 — Unless you’ve been hiding under a proverbial rock you’ve heard that 3-D – and the much-vaunted “immersive experience” it provides – represents the future of the movie-going enterprise. Avatar signaled the coming...
Leave a Light On
Oct 18, 2010 — Home has been on my mind lately. Not an actual, geographically defined place. Not really. I mean, rather, the idea of home: Where is it that we feel at ease, accepted and even embraced? And how do we hang on to this as life, in keeping with its...
Charles Townes on the Virtue of Tenacity
GLEN ARM, Md., Oct. 5, 2010 — It isn’t every day, is it? It isn’t every day you get to listen to Dr. Charles Townes — inventor of the maser, precursor to the laser, without whom the world would likely look very different today — as he recounts his journey...
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Oct 4, 2010 — I like to mess with my siblings’ cats sometimes when I get my hands on a laser pointer, You know: make them tumble over themselves trying to catch the tiny red spot dancing across the carpet, occasionally convince them to run headlong into the...
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