I've been very, very excited about Jess's holiday present: a copy Rise Again, a fakebook for designed for campfire/group singing. I got the songbook for her (and a copy for me) in mid-October, when the songbook's creators Peter Blood and Annie Patterson came to Cambridge to give a singalong concert with several of the singer songwriters whose songs appear among the just under 1200 songs in the collection.
I've spent hours browsing, humming and strumming, through the pages finding old favorites and meeting new ones. To help you get acquainted your own copy, here's a gift for you--a puzzle that draws primarily from my old favorites throughout the book.
Happy singing!
07 December 2015
09 October 2015
NOVA likes my video!
During my first year in graduate school, when I was working with the Yb ion trap lab (also in the Vuletic Group at MIT), then senior-graduate student Marko and I put together a little movie of what our ions could do the night before I went home for winter break. The idea was that, once set to music, these frames of ions in motion would give us a way to talk about what we were doing with our families.
And, now (actually in August, but I just saw it today), NOVA embedded the video in an article about the awesome work that lab has been doing in the five-ish years since we made it: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/friction/
Neat!
And, now (actually in August, but I just saw it today), NOVA embedded the video in an article about the awesome work that lab has been doing in the five-ish years since we made it: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/friction/
Neat!
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