frostisthenewblack.blogspot.com - 9/9/2008
—
The official firing of the Large Hadron Collider is on October 20. Their test run is this wednesday. If the experiment fails, and the world ends, then I won't be able to play Wrath of the Lich King. DAMN YOU HARDON COLLIDER! YOU WILL BE THE END OF US ALL!
PhD Comics goes to CERN
feeds.boingboing.net 9/9/2008 —
Miles sez, "Jorge Cham, author of the totally amazing Ph.D. Comics (disclaimer: I'm a grad student) posted the first of a five-part series of comics about his visit to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. To me, the best part about Cham's work is that he always gives you the scientific ...
The Large Hadron Collider —
It's All Geek to Me
Tomorrow they’re throwing the switch on the Large Hadron Collider that they built on the border between Switzerland and France. This amazes and astounds me on levels that I cannot even begin to express because I honestly had no idea that Switzerland and France actually shared a border.
...
LHC will not destroy the universe in 5 days —
Boing Boing
In case you're still worried that the universe will wink out of existence in 5 days when they turn on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, rest easy: a new report from the LHC Safety Assessment Group says it ain't gonna happen. Or, as one physicist told me when I asked about this last month while ...
Petascale data-centers in Nature —
Boing Boing
I wrote a feature for this week's issue of the journal Nature on "petascale" data-centers -- giant data-centers used in scholarship and science, from Google to the Large Hadron Collider to the Human Genome and Thousand Genome projects to the Internet Archive. The issue is on stands now and also ...
LHC4U —
Kill Ten Rats
The Large Hadron Collider goes live today. Some people have been concerned that it will accidentally destroy the planet (see first reference), if not a good chunk of the universe. Such worries are overstated; there is an infinitesimal chance that it will destroy part of France.
Just in case, ...
Swoooosh! —
Book of Grudges
Wotcha everyone,
Well, I am “with job”. I went for an interview last week, got the offer, so now I’m just waiting for references and all that stuff to be sorted, and for a human resources department to stop playing “Solitaire” long enough to get all the ...
Follow WoWBlips on Twitter
