“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That’s really bad…” The restaurant chain Waffle House is known for being well-prepared for extreme weather and natural disasters. Because of this reputation, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency created the Waffle House Index as an unofficial metric of how badly an area was affected by a disaster. A Waffle House with a full menu means the community wasn’t hit too hard, while a closed Waffle House (called a Level Red) means that the community needs urgent help. Read full article here
Science
‘Ghostly’ neutrinos provide new path to study protons
In groundbreaking research, an international collaboration of scientists from the University of Rochester have used a beam of neutrinos to measure the size and shape of the protons that make up the nuclei of atoms. This feat, once thought impossible, provides scientists with a new way of looking at the small components of an atom’s nucleus and opens up a wealth of new information about the structure of an atom’s nucleus and the dynamics of the forces that affect neutrino interactions. The researchers solved the challenge of harnessing neutrinos in large numbers by using a neutrino detector containing a target of both hydrogen and carbon atoms, and over nine years of data collection at Fermilab’s accelerator. Read full article here
Merv
March 25, 2023
