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Misunderstanding Michael Reiss

Posted in Science, Science and the Public, tagged , , , , on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It’s been about two weeks now since the story of Michael Reiss, Royal Society’s director of education, broke in the UK’s national media. Our tale begins with a speech made by Prof. Reiss at the Liverpool Festival of Science on Sept 9. The full text of the speech is available here, so I’ll just quote [...]

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Things are getting worse

Posted in Amusing, Economics, Linguistics on September 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Luke’s recent LHC post has goaded me into making sure other important events do not pass without appropriate comment.

The talk about town is all of the US government’s proposal to nationalise (or ‘go all European on,’ as I predict it will soon be derided) the parcels of extremely bad debt owned by important financial companies; [...]

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And now for something less intelligent …

Posted in Amusing, tagged , on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Mimas is one of Saturn’s many moons.It might have a sinister past:

And while we’re pointing out similarities, here’s a few more from totallylookslike.com:

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The LHC and the End of the World

Posted in Physics, Science, Science and the Public, The Universe, tagged , , , , , on September 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

We can’t let the official “switch-on” of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) pass without comment. The goal of the LHC is to find the Higgs Boson, the last particle of the standard model of particle physics (“the standard model”) that has yet to appear in the debris of a collision in a particle accelerator. The [...]

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