Chalk and talk: the enduring appeal of the blackboard
To celebrate Fermilab’s 50th anniversary as America’s high-energy physics lab, Ben Still explains why neutrinos hold the key to the lab’s future. You can also enjoy a cracking review of Tommaso Dorigo’s new warts-and-all account of life in the CDF collaboration at Fermilab, while Seyda Ipek from the lab pops up in Philip Ball’s homage to the blackboard. As Ball makes clear, despite us living in an era of PowerPoint, smartboards and digital projection, the traditional blackboard still retains an aura and usefulness for physicists that more advanced technologies can’t match.
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