My classmate and Ketterle were in the Guinness Book of World Records for a while for having achieved the "lowest manmade temperature" in their research on Bose–Einstein condensates.
I went to elementary through high school with a guy who was a grad student of Wolfgang Ketterle at MIT when Ketterle won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001 and then was a postdoc with Eric Cornell, with whom Ketterle shared that Prize.
‼️ When I started as a grad student at Michigan Chemistry in 1999 the Yaghi group had just arrived from Arizona State. Their lab was right down the hall from mine. Omar was one of the young faculty in my concentration, inorganic chemistry. My apartment-mate joined the Yaghi group. ❤️
I've been spinning this album continually through the day. Currently in the third complete play-through, not counting a track or two (or three) at other times!
By "program" above I meant the album but I'm a big fan of the show as well. I actually sometimes listen twice! My two favorite stations carry it at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and I often switch between them at seven to catch the show again if it's particularly good. 🙂
I heard part of this album last evening on Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. I already had a favorite recording of the Missa Ego flos campi but I realized I'd underestimated this one. I like the program as a whole quite a lot too.
Bill McGlaughlin was playing Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla on his radio show this evening. I *love* the way Padilla seasoned his sacred choral music with folk and indigenous inflections. It's just beautiful.
My favorite recording of his masterly Missa Ego flos campi:
In fact, because it was just me this time I took only Hilda as the representative of all our pets (not just the dogs — the cat, the geckos, the fish, the frogs, and the snails as well)
I love the annual blessing of the animals in which we honor St. Francis by bringing our pets to the parish and creating a roiling cauldron of slobber-flecked rage at the presence of other creatures
Inktober Oct. 5, Sts Maurus and Placid. According to pious legend, the young Brother Placid was sent to fetch water for St. Benedict’s monastery. Benedict sensed something wrong and sent Maurus in haste to rescue Placid from drowning. Maurus miraculously walked on water to rescue his friend.
". . . Courage and sacrifice must be the hallmark of our actions at this moment of historic and deliberate suffering being visited upon people living truly good lives that are a credit to our nation. As citizens, we must not be silent as this profound injustice is carried out in our name."
"As a Church we must console and peacefully stand in solidarity with the undocumented men and women whose lives are being upended by the government's campaign of fear and terror. . . .
