After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.