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Sanity and the Large Hadron Collider

Sorry this is a bit long–I’m trying to cram quite a lot of science into a rather small space–but not at anything like the speed of light Wednesday was the “start-up” of the Large Hadron Collider at...

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The bizarre similarity between money and quantum physics

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always found money very puzzling for various reasons. Especially when it comes to what the banks do with it. I’ve never been quite convinced that money actually exists:...

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Books I ought to finish reading

Just for fun, here’s a list of them. As it happens, they’re also books I want to finish reading but keep forgetting to, or doing something else instead. In no partcular order (actually, the order in...

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Boatswains and silicon

The Higgs Boson is not the Higgs Boatswain. Neither are breast implants made from a hard brittle metallic-looking material. Continue reading →

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Impossible Slinky

What happens when drop a dangling Slinky? It levitates in an entirely counterintuitive way. Slow-motion video plus my explanation (on top of the one in the video.) Continue reading →

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