It’s September 11th, a day that cannot pass without some pause. Those terrorist attacks 18 years ago forever changed the United States and altered world history. It's strange to think that some of our youngest Texas Standard interns – people who will someday be colleagues – don't
have memories of seeing the second plane crash into the Twin Towers, or watching those titans fall in real time. Instead, their schools, shopping centers and places of worship are targets for a different form of terror. That violence – and the search for solutions – continues to dominate the discussion, as you’ll see below. But we also hope some of the inspiring advances, practical advice and heartening personal stories we’ve shared this week find a place in your thoughts as well. As always, thanks for listening.
- Laura Rice
A Texas Author Blames The Governor For Not Taking Action On Mass Shootings
The racist attack in El Paso “really went to the heart of the country’s 60 million Latinos,” writer Richard Parker says. “And I don’t think they’re going to forget, come election time next year.”
FDA Approves Procedure That Significantly Changes How Surgeons Replace Heart Valves
The procedure takes about 30 minutes, compared to four hours for open-heart surgery. Recovery time is much shorter as well. “This can be done, most of the time, under local anesthesia.”
My first journalism job was editing a monthly magazine called Supercomputing News. I loved tech, but didn’t know a thing about supercomputers. But two years later, I could tell you how many megaflops the latest
Intel Hypercube could do. (I just lost you all, didn’t I?) I loved it, because supercomputers were, and are, about really intense aspects of science, like plotting black holes, or modeling the way molecules behave. When I recently went to the Texas Advanced Computing Center to
report on UT’s new Frontera supercomputer, I noticed an old photo of the c-shaped Cray supercomputer from the 1990s. It was state-of-the-art tech back then, when I made my first trip to TACC. They say that the phones we carry in our pockets today are like little supercomputers. Fortunately, they don’t requires liquid cooling systems or 5.5 megawatts of power!
It’s September 11th, a day that cannot pass without some pause. Those terrorist attacks 18 years ago forever changed the United States and altered world history. It's strange to think that some of our youngest Texas Standard interns – people who will someday be colleagues – don't
My first journalism job was editing a monthly magazine called Supercomputing News. I loved tech, but didn’t know a thing about supercomputers. But two years later, I could tell you how many megaflops the latest
