This doesn't look too promising

I'm talking about Hurricane Ike; here are the latest computer models, which have it going pretty close to us in Houston:



On a more positive note, the LHC is still scheduled to start up on Wednesday. Also, experimenters at Fermilab have discovered a new type of baryon, the Ω_b, which contains two strange quarks (along with a single bottom quark). (In contrast, the proton is composed of two up quarks and one down.) It mass is about 6 times that of the proton, just as expected from lattice gauge theory calculations.