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Radio Alert: Science Fantastic Today At 5 | The Loom
added on 21 Nov 2009
Today at 5 pm EST I am going to be on Science Fantastic, the radio show hosted by physicist Michio Kaku. You can call in at 800-449-8255. Here’s a list of stations that carry the show, either live or repeated later this week.
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Swine-Flu Update: Resistance, Mutations, Declines and China
added on 21 Nov 2009
Here are a few threads from around the world on what’s happening with the H1N1 swine-flu pandemic. Four patients in the past six weeks had Tamiflu-resistant flu at Duke University Hospital. In at least two of the cases, patients contracted the resistant bug before they had been treated with Tamif...
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Higgs Escapes Part of Exclusion Region
added on 21 Nov 2009
This past winter a combined analysis of data from the two Tevatron experiments showed at 95% confidence level that the Higgs mass could not be in the range 160-170 GeV. This was a better result than expected: statistically the experiments should not have been able to exclude any of the mass rang...
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Don’t diss Darwin.
added on 21 Nov 2009
The good news, there will be free copies of On the Origin of Species handed out at various universities, including mine. The bad news, it comes with a tragically silly introduction by creationist banana-man* Ray Comfort. Thankfully, the NCSE is on the case. They have a site devoted to this iss...
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Ray has a change in plans
added on 20 Nov 2009
Apparently, because people had plans to counter some of Ray Comfort's Origin giveaway — which was announced to occur on the 19th — Comfort is giving them away today. I've been getting reports from various universities that his minions are at work right now, as in this photo from Oxford. Get ou...
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