Dear Physics Community,

NYT had a piece today, “The Year You Finally Read a Book about Climate Change”.  First on the list is “What We Know About Climate Change” by Kerry Emanuel from MIT.

While flipping through the Times, I found this.

Physics Department

When? – A piece on what’s needed for reopening campuses and businesses.

Networks – contact tracing of infections is a network problem.  I was reading this paper and wondering if the results could be applied to contact tracing to estimate the total number of infections.

Bound state beta decay – I have always been interested in this process.  Bahcall predicted it in 1961 and it was first observed in 1992 at GSI in the very intriguing Dy-163 – Ho-163 system.  Does not appear to be good for much, but interesting to think about.

Los Endos

Carol Breen reports that today the 403rd anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.  This shows the frequency with which people in his collected works were dispatched.

Trouble coping (thanks to Ray Ashoori)?

Peter