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Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

10/29/2008 – 9:05 am

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? (In case you were wondering.)

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From that far away, it stinks to see a whale

8/1/2008 – 8:07 am

The Mars Lander is on Twitter.

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Can hot water freeze faster than cold water?

7/31/2008 – 1:01 pm

Hot water does freeze faster than cold water under many circumstances.

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Executive function

7/22/2008 – 1:38 pm

A Scientific American article about how executive function breaks down in normal people who are overexercising choice: Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain. You’re going to hear more about things like this.

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You spin me right round, baby, right round

3/3/2008 – 12:42 pm

Turns out that apparently the Coriolis effect has nothing to do with the direction water spins down the drain.

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“The ice is back.”

2/25/2008 – 1:14 pm

This winter is apparently one of the worst in modern meteorological history; in other news, there may be more to ice cap melting than just ozone depletion. (Hello, wind effects on ocean currents! Didn’t anybody else learn that part of the reason people who aren’t from Iceland can live in Great Britain is [...]

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Thought police

11/14/2007 – 12:57 am

Interesting, if potentially scary stuff.
On a slightly related note, I’m fascinated with radiology as a medical specialty. However, it’s a difficult specialty to enter, and I’m sure I don’t have the intellectual chops for it.

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