FiO: Notes from the Crucible
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2009 – ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa,’ I thought. ‘Whoa.’ I had just stumbled across a page on the Frontiers in Optics website collecting blog postings about the (then) upcoming meeting. ‘We can’t have people just running around writing stuff for the internet. About science, no less.’ A moment of relative disquiet followed. I eventually composed myself, though, and after checking to see that I still had a job, looked more closely at the page in question. And looked. I found myself poring through the postings –...