Weekly round up
What’s been on the Great Beyond this week… … Read more
Physics conspiracy: LHC could kill us all
Of all the physics conspiracy theories out there, my current favorite concerns the Large Hadron Colldier (LHC), a proton-proton collider near Geneva, Switzerland that will hopefully discover some exciting new physics. Conspiracy nuts have suggested that it might also inadvertently destroy the Earth (or maybe even the entire Universe). Read more
Great Beyond Super-Scientist-Spotting Quiz!
Last week US biologist and blogger PZ Myers was unceremoniously evicted from the cinema where he was about to view the film Expelled, dismissed by many scientists as creationist propaganda (see last year’s post for more on Expelled). However the film’s producer, who had Myers kicked out, failed to expel his fellow cinema-goer, one Richard Dawkins. Read more
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Chemistry credit disputes under the spotlight
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