God Awful Things

Yall remember the Drake Equation?
But what about in the MULTIVERSE?!
There’s an equation for that!
Over at the Technology Review they’ve got an article on just this.
He begins by considering the total set of universes in the multiverse and defines the subset in which the parameters and fundamental constants are compatible with the anthropic principle. This is [...]

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Our world may be a giant hologram! Yep.. want  some light reading? check out this article at the new scientist.
For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had [...]

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Slow news week thanks to.. thanks to… something.. anyway, over at copybot they have (well, their list) of the 50 most interesting articles on wikipedia.
1. Marree Man
2. War Plan Red
3. Vela Incident
4. Tybee Bomb
5. United States Numbered Highways
6. Wow! Signal
7. Tube Bar Prank Calls
8. Kola Superdeep Borehole
9. Back to the Future Timeline
10. Year Without a Summer
11. K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
12. Sokal Affair
13. Blue Peacock
14. Veerappan
15. Person From Porlock
16. Eternal [...]

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As we discussed a couple weeks ago, those pesky Higgs particles being so abhorrent to nature, they are actually traveling back through time to prevent their discovery.  Well, further evidence to prove it’s really happening!
From Popsci:

The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of [...]

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Weren’t we just talking about quantum tunneling a couple days ago in a manner completely unrelated to the subject?  Is it possible that I qauntumly tunneled that post? Posting it before I posted it? Buh.
“We have broken the speed of light” proclaim a couple of German physicist..
Pretty short on details, and this is really the [...]

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This was going around the internets last week and I wanted to write something about it then, but I was busy at work (hence posting pictures), but now I am just trying to look busy as opposed to actually being busy, so there is time to write this up.
Over at the New York Times there [...]

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I saw this last week on /. but didn’t have time to read it or anything, but as it is slow at the moment, I will spit this out to blow your minds.  For whatever reason, that reminded me of Lynda Barry’s  Ernie Pook’s Comeek.  There is one where Freddy says “Freak the man, freak [...]

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I’m just about sure everyone have seen this classified ad before, but if not.. here it is in all its glory.
I could link to some really interesting time travelers famous on the internet but I haven’t the time before leaving work, but if you’ve never read up on time travelers on the internet, it is [...]

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When I first visited Los Angeles I knew there was something different about it. It was like the sunny and 75 days made people just a little more chillaxed. No need to lay on the horn in traffic, man, cos you’re not getting anywhere any faster anyway. After moving out here I heard [...]

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Noooo, not more 25 things! Oh well, this one should be difficult. This should probably just be called 25 songs I like right now, because there are so many more than 25 I listen to regularly.
Or maybe, 25 songs I can listen to over and over and not get tired of.. anyway, let me [...]

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