This is reposted from http://poneke.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/lhc-5/. Additional comments and discussion are available there. Harvard physicist speculates that forces from the future may have stopped the world’s biggest scientific experiment Jump to Comments BREAKING NEWS A physicist at the world’s biggest scientific experiment – the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva – is speculating that the failure of the collider soon after it was switched on in September was c...
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I present to you Korean pop sensations Girls' Generation, seen here advertising fried chicken for a Korean fast food restaurant. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuXn5_dhSIU] The first clip is an actual advertisement. The second might be as well. The restaurant is promoting a dance-off in which the girls are participating. Not sure I see where the chicken's being sold though. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K6F3A7ZvVU]
We made it through Ike OK. Especially compared to so many others who have suffered and lost so much. Sunset, Friday night, Sept. 12, 2008 At 11:36 pm on Friday, Sept. 12 our power went out. Ike still hadn't made landfall. But the amount of water pouring into Galveston via storm surge was already quite frigtening, even from afar. Mandatory evacution orders had been issued long before. That night the wind blew. It blew hard. We lost a small tree in the backyard and four br...
One year ago, it was going to be about Iraq. As recently as 24 hours ago, it was about the economy. Some tried to make it about race. But here, having watched the maps for an entire day, are the 3 real reasons Barack Obama is our new President. 1) Hatred of George W. Bush 2) City mouse vs. country mouse 3) A generational shift in the electorate. Let's go into this with both our eyes and our hearts wide open. We rejected fear. We accepted hope. Barack Obama won.