One more thing I hadn’t thought I needed to be worried about.
(with a tip of the hat to our cousins at Bad Astronomy Blog)
Tags: hadron, abuse, subatomic, particle, CERN

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Like a lot of other people, I’ve been following the “Clark Rockefeller” kidnapping case and its sequelae, bemused by the net of false identities that the guy seems to have woven around himself (partly because I’ve had a very annoying identity thief of my own in the past), and also now grimly interested by his […]

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Gaah.
Tags: computer, detention, laptop, examination, gaah, paranoia, government

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…This is a canned blog entry. At the time it’s posted, I’ll be on my way to Dublin to catch my flight to Sweden. But I saw this and thought that by the morning, maybe there’ll be some take on whether the subject is a hoax, or a genuine monster in the technical sense of the […]

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The uranium content of granite has always been somewhat in our radar since we moved to Ireland, since there’s a lot of granite in Wicklow;  and where there’s granite, because of the decay of the tiny amounts of uranium it often contains, sometimes there’s radon as well. But here’s a side effect I hadn’t given […]

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Before introducing footage from the new Wolverine movie, Hugh Jackman jumps down off the stage to shake Len Wein’s hand.
What a super moment! And so very deserved.

Once he was back on stage, Jackman gave a really heart-felt speech to Wein saying, “I waited a long time to thank you personally and I wanted to shake […]

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Not long after the online version of the Irish Times newspaper appeared, some years back, it went subscription-only. At 70 Euro per year (or whatever they were charging), it was just too expensive: I stopped reading it.  I get a sense that other people may have had the same reaction, as last year (I think it was) they changed over to some […]

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This is fascinating stuff. Apparently Radovan Karadzic decided that to successfully elude capture, he needed to ditch his armed entourage. Having done so, he then disguised himself as a very full-bearded white-haired guy with glasses and settled down in Belgrade, renting a suburban flat under a false name, passing himself off as a practitioner of alternative medicine, even […]

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The bones of the late British broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen by a crime ring that snatched body parts to sell for transplant procedures, according to reports in two New York newspapers on Thursday.
Citing sources close to an investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, the Daily News said Cooke’s bones were snatched before his […]

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