Posts by Will de Cleene
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Disabled workers as overqualified Baldricks are very common. Deaf people with an undergrad degree have a slightly higher unemployment rate than Norms without one.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Islander,
warily trust in science
But that's the whole point of science. You don't have to trust it; it's falsifiable. Which is more than you can say for priests, poets and politicians.
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Roughan is making hay from Met's LHC blurt, that would drive a wedge between the Envirodruids and Scientists.
The last time this flared up was with the GE debate, which set the Left against its own. Here's a handful of heresies that they will have to cross swords with. One day, they will have to sit down and talk about thorium like adults.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Who says they haven’t?
That's the thing with snails. They're inscrutable. Also dolphins and mice. However, the cat and I think alike, although that might be a due to a parasite, according to latest research.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Islander,
But we all know the squids & octopi will get there first…
I hope it'll be the octopii ascendant, but I fear the jellyfish will win.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Islander,
Um, arnt we making a leap into the absurd here?
Yeah, I admit that metaphor needs significant plastic surgery. More apt aphorisms welcomed. Just how freaking awesome is the Hogg's Bison?
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Lilith __,
I get that the Higgs boson is a really big deal, but I think most of us are just nodding and smiling uncomprehendingly at the physicists.
Imagine snails working out how to predict lunar eclipses. It's that amazing.
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Here's what Richard Feynman has to say about the alleged Comic Sans furore (at Auckland Uni in 1979, no less):
Then there's the B Ark Golgafrinchans from Douglas Adams' H2G2, where they're arguing over what colour the Wheel should be. I'd rather have substance over style any day of the quark.
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Don't forget the old Large Hadron Rap:
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