matterhacker

Wired has a nice picturesque story about the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC). Cool place. I did some research there at some point in my career. The whole complex is like something out of a James Bond movie. Catwalks and all kinds of crazy electronics all over. It’s probably most useful as a synchrotron source. You can do a lot of really neat stuff with high energy x-rays… especially in relation to structural molecular biology. I probably should have stayed in that line of research. It’s a lot more applicable.