Satyendra Nath Bose and Enrico Fermi

Everything is made of a set of just 17 fundamental particles, and those particles, though they may differ by mass or charge, come in just two basic types. Each is either a “boson” or a “fermion.”

Fermions (matter particles)

  • Quarks: up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom
  • Leptons: electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, tau neutrino

Bosons (force-carrying particles)

  • Gauge bosons (vector bosons): Gluon, photon, Z boson, W boson
  • Scalar bosons: Higgs Boson

Terence Eden, We’ve got to stop sending files to each other

The modern workforce shouldn’t be flinging copies to each other. A copy is outdated the moment it is downloaded. A copy has no protection against illicit reading. A copy can never be revoked.

Data shouldn’t live in a file on a laptop. It shouldn’t be a single file on a network share. Data is a living beast. Data needs to live in a database - not an Excel file. Access should be granted for each according to their needs.

Song: County Line by Cass McCombs

On my way to you, old county
Hoping nothing's changed
That your pain is never-ending
That is, it's still the same
County line
County line
County line
I left so far behind

You never even tried to love me
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
What did I have to do to make you want me?
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
I feel so blind, I can't make out the passing road signs
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
All that you would have me do is cross that county line
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
County line

Now you know I'm coming, old county
To see construction sites
And your new homes never-ending
I think I can see the lights
County line
County line
County line
I can smell the columbine

You never even tried to love me
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
What did I have to do to make you want me?
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
I feel so blind, I can't make out the passing road signs
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
All that you would have me do is cross that county line
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
County line
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
County line
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
County line
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah
County line
Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah