science lovers vs. science haters
The Cern Courier has a fairly technical article about black holes called The Case For Mini Black Holes. When I say this is a “fairly technical article”, I mean that it has no calculus problems that you must complete in order to read it. It does contain a lot of particle physics and cosmological jibber [...]
Part 2 of our continuing series with science lover Bill Scher of Liberal Oasis, featuring articles on conservative science haters.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/12/mccain-creationism/
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2897153&page=1
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/154403.aspx
The Columbus Dispatch has a nice article by Kevin Mayhood called Rock The Universe where among other things they spell out what all those crazy detector acronyms stand for, and what each detector aims to do.
LHC: Large Hadron Collider (duh?)
ATLAS: A Toroidal LHC Apparatus
CMS: Compact Muon Solenoid
ALICE: A Large Ion Collider Experiment
I think it is [...]
Wired Science has a collection of the best LHC videos. My favorite is the TED Talk with Brian Cox, He really sells the hell out of the LHC. This guy lives and breathes scientific discovery.
And my least favorite is the Funny or Die video. While I am not such a loser that I cannot laugh [...]
Earlier this month I was listening to one of my favorite local non NPR radio shows where Bill Dwight aired his fears on the LHC. I like Bill Dwight but he said something that made me crazy!
Bill said that the world could be swallowed by a black hole that the scientists at the LCH would [...]
For the haters out there, add two more months to wait for Armageddon.
For everyone else, add two more months to the time we wait to find out if the Higgs Boson exists.
Ctv.ca Damage to new collider forces two-month halt
Doesn’t helium always leak? It is the second smallest atom! Hydrogen is smaller but since [...]
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