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Telegraph - Large Hadron Collider to be turned off for two months following damage

Two months?! That’s a lot of bubble teas!

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An amusing tale, by Robert Crampton, second item, in The Times:

Squirrel secret I was at the pub yesterday, Indian summer, lovely evening, enjoy smoking, so I sat outside overlooking the park. The couple at the next table spent the whole time cajoling and controlling their two terriers, which were being [...]

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I’ve had this open for a few days, and I really want to link to it because it’s so cute, but I wouldn’t know where to excerpt it because I’d have to excerpt quite a bit of it and so I’ll just link to it:

The Times - Our biggest black hole was in the budget The [...]

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Telegraph - Ten things that you didn’t know about the Big Bang, by Craig Brown

Hilarious!

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The Times - Bad building, not heavy rain, made these houses flood If we persist in covering land with concrete and tarmac, we must expect more devastated homes, by Ross Clark

Headline writers have been thumbing their copies of Roget’s Thesaurus over the weekend for words relating to “deluge” and “tempest”. But what they should [...]

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(this was going to be an update to the last post, but oh well.)

The Times - Hadrons and Humanity The insights into the universe which the Large Hadron Collider will reveal have significance far beyond physics. They are a celebration of human curiosity

Why does matter have mass, allowing it to form stars, planets and [...]

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The Sunday Times - Final word The end is not nigh, just yet

Some people think that the world could end on Wednesday. That is when the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest particle accelerator, begins its search for ever more elusive atomic particles by trying to recreate conditions at the birth of the universe. [...]

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Seattle, peculiarly, isn’t mentioned.

The Times - After New Orleans - would you move here? Whether by earthquake, flood, drought or volcanic eruption, some of the world’s cities are in serious danger of disaster, by Paul Simons

It was a close shave, but New Orleans just managed to escape Hurricane Gustav’s onslaught on Monday. But the [...]

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The numbers in this were interesting:

Sunday Telegraph - US gets ready to blow its economy away, by Christopher Booker

Both candidates (McCain & Obama) favour a version of the proposed “cap and trade” scheme to slash US greenhouse gas emissions to 63 per cent below 2005 levels, at an estimated cost by 2030 of [...]

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The Times - Suddenly being green is not cool any more As the credit crunch bites, environmental policies are being ditched. But oddly we are doing better at saving the planet, by Alice Thomson

Julie Burchill can’t stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks [...]

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Curtsy: Brett McS, for saving my bacon at the end of this so-far blogless day. It’s loose-ends week here at casa ninme. I’m feeling a teensy bit freaked out. But that video is cute. Also, we’re watching Planet Earth, so it’s extra-funny. This evening we watched the episode on the Poles and why the polar [...]

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The Times - Shrew identified as world’s hardest drinking creature

A tropical shrew with a taste for alcoholic nectar has been identified as the hardest-drinking creature in the world. Pentailed tree shrews have such an appetite for alcohol that each night they imbibe, weight for weight, the equivalent of a human [...]

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“Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree…”

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The Times - New Age ideas and mass murder go hand in hand Radovan Karadzic’s double life as an alternative medicine guru shouldn’t surprise us, by Igor Toronyi-Lalic

We express shock when the lovely bloke next door - “wouldn’t hurt a fly” - is taken away in a dawn raid for a savage granny attack. [...]

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Well. That was unexpected. Full series at Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera. “In the past, there have been reports of crocodiles killing leopards, but this is believed to the first time that the reverse scenario has been observed.” Man, it’s a good thing he had his camera out.

Previously: The Buffalo Have Become [...]

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