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The Hobby of Energy Secretary Steven Chu

Posted by kdawson on from the needs-to-get-out-more dept.

quanminoan writes "Nobel Laureate and US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has continued to publish even while in federal office. While previous research topics include gravitational redshift, Chu has coauthored a paper entitled 'Subnanometre single-molecule localization registration and distance measurements' which discusses a way to optically image objects as small as 0.5 nm — a major step down from the previous limit of 10 nm. Chu does this in his free time, claiming 'I just consider it my equivalent of ... vegging out in front of the TV.'"

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  1. His equivalent of TV is publishing papers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ouch, the feeling of terrible inadequacy, laziness and lack of accomplishment. :P

  2. Re:Beats him whinging about Americans being spoile by Myji+Humoz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Americans aren't spoiled compared to most other Westerners? If you actually read the article, he said "The American public ... just like your teenage kids, aren't acting in a way that they should act" with respect to climate change. He seems correct, and I would say that it's a welcome change from PR spinning and political doublespeak.

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