God Awful Things

Welp, the LHC smashed some particles today [BBC].  Two streams at 3.5 TeV (Thats short for “a whole fucking lot”) were sent right into each other, and look, we’re all still here.. “unless we aren’t” I said to a coworker. Mind… Blown.. Maybe we’re already in an alternate reality where men want to be me [...]

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Wired has a great read about a Canadian thief.. I don’t want to give much away because it’s an exciting read. The plane slowed and leveled out about a mile aboveground. Up ahead, the Viennese castle glowed like a fairy tale palace. When the pilot gave the thumbs-up, Gerald Blanchard looked down, checked his parachute [...]

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Busy week continues.. here is The Middle East performing on KCRW from SXSW.. remember who found these guys!

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It’s been a week since I last posted.. and thats a shame too since neat stuff like researchers  build the biggest quantum object yet [BBC], but so busy at work I can’t even comment on it.. shame too, as existing at two places simultaneously sounds like something I could really get into. Such states, in [...]

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You remember how Higgs Boson particles are traveling back through time to prevent their discovery due to their abhorrent nature? Well… it’s happened again! [Discovery.com] This may sound like a real downer, especially after the flurry of recent successes – from a thrilling start-up to most powerful particle collisions ever achieved — but it’s hardly surprising. Although [...]

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Killing time at work today I came across this at EverythingIsTerrible Simply amazing, I might as well give up on trying to think of movie ideas..

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So, you have undoubtedly heard of the Chilean quake, the whole 8.8 thing.. you know, the one that released 66.6 exajoules of power? You know the one that knocked Earth off it’s axis? Oh yeah, you didn’t hear about that? Think about that for a second, think of how powerful it must be to actually [...]

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