Terry Johnson is a science teacher in Arkansas, and he tipped me off to this extraordinary photoessay about the Large Hadron Collider and CERN, written by his friend Jeremy Lusk. The pictures are of a piece of art celebrating CERN and the human effort… but I won’t spoil it. Go see.
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July 12th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Thanks for the tip to go visit. Terry speaks from the heart and in his short words conveys much that we hurry passed in our daily lives.
July 12th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
oops! Wrong citation. That should be Jeremy Lusk. Still who ever wrote the words, they don’t change the feeling.
July 12th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
when i first saw, science teacher in arkansas, my first thought before finishing the article was “science in arkinsas”, all jokes aside, awsome photoessay
July 13th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
subatomic particle sez: I’m in yur collider, xpandin yur nollege