John Huth

Working on my rolls

In the mail today

Award of the Lifetime Achievement Award by US ATLAS

Folks in Building 40 at CERN are fond of throwing paper airplanes.

It will be interesting to see if this keeps up when the VRO is churning out a large number of observations of interstellar objects per year. Fun that he managed to slide in a reference to the Three Body Problem.

Our Doc Huth and the Uncouth Youth set at Friends Fest party this weekend - us playing and people dancing to the music

Harbor scene

I don’t understand at all. Respect the vote, and I’m a more centrist older guy. There’s a need for the next generation to step up. Here’s the chance

It would also quiet down the Ackman-type donors. I can't guarantee that this is the case, but it would make sense to leak it like this if this were the strategy.

It's difficult to know what's going on behind the scenes. It could just be a kind of rope-a-dope to keep the focus off Harvard while the lawsuits proceed.

Schooner seen from Butter Island Maine

Solstice sunset from Butter Island, Maine

It's the NYPost. He seems to be doing well in the polls, this may help him in NYC - interesting to see what happens when so many are tacking to the middle, to have a more progressive candidate.

Photo from my trip between Stonington and Butter Island and return - Maine sea kayaking and camping.

A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places Amazon.com: A Sense of Space: A Local’s Guide to a Flat Earth, the Edge of the Cosmos, and Other Curious Places: 9780226844428: Huth, John Edward: Libros

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My book is now on pre-order on Amazon

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Nothing ain't worth nothing, but it's free". Kris Kristofferson

There was a preponderance of opinion among the faculty, the students, and the governing boards to go this route.

I don't suppose the traditional government outsourcing was done by asking for bids, then letting the contract via considerations like the lowest bidder.

Breakthrough Prize – Breakthrough Prize Announces 2025 Laureates in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics

I'm a winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (along with 10,000 others). breakthroughprize.org/News/91

Giving a talk in Chatham on Saturday www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Trump Administration Sends Harvard a List of Demands to Protect Federal Funds (Gift Article) The list was similar to one sent to Columbia University last month after the government canceled $400 million to the school. Harvard may have $9 billion on the line.

Here's the full quote I gave to the @nytimes.com about Trump's "demands" on Harvard:
"The demands on Harvard are authoritarian extortion, not serious policy goals, and not what one would imagine seeing in a democratic country. Harvard should reject them out of hand."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

We should follow Princeton President Eisgruber's lead and refuse to make concessions.

A sell off like this isn't a 'tantrum', but the use of that word does reveal a certain mindset.

I just found out that the Princeton particle physics umbrella grant was 'suspended' by the Dept. of Energy. They don't know why or how the university might resolve it.

Welp....an NPR reported asked to interview me about the Harvard situation, and perhaps foolishly, I consented to the interview. Probably coming up on ATC this afternoon. Yikes!

My god! Apparently it is a lost cause. I wonder how I didn't notice that sign before.

The timescale is the most daunting. How to keep people in the field is a challenge. Also a minor nit-pick with the article, it was jarring to see CERN written as Cern. The author needs a good copy editor.

Harvard announced a temporary pause on hiring.

Science On Screen: Prof. John Huth: “The Rise of Aeronautics and Weather Predictions: From Ben Franklin to Project Manhigh” SCIENCE ON SCREEN® – THE AERONAUTS with Guest Speaker Prof. John Huth John Huth, Donner Professor of Science at Harvard University, gave a presentation…

A video of my talk prefacing The Aeronauts at the Martha's Vineyard film society from last Thursday

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2/2. or unresolved tension, much like the auditory illusion where a tone seems to continually ascend or descend despite actually looping back on itself; it's often compared to the visual illusion of a barber pole where the stripes seem to always be moving upwards.