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Gifts Of The Islands

... who can turn down papayas in December, or cheap Halloween costumes manufactured overseas? But maybe Makana, his friends, and ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Nov 9 2011 - 5:08pm - 0 attachments

ELI to Join the Hunt for Ghost Particles (Halloween Edition)

Europe is moving forward at high speed to build ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure Ultra-High Field Facility), to be completed by the end of the century. The location for the facility will be announced next year, possibly at the opening ceremony of th ...

Blog Post - Bobby Knight - Oct 31 2011 - 6:14am - 0 attachments

Twinkie Defense Revisited: Soft Drinks Implicated In Teen Violence

... as the "Twinkie Defense" – and, since it is nearing Halloween, delicious, sugary Twinkies were also an allegory for paranormal ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2011 - 8:41pm - 0 attachments

Zombies: The Safer Terrorists

... games or even school responses to overly realistic Halloween costumes. We've become hypersensitive to the prospect of real ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 26 2011 - 2:31pm - 0 attachments

Science For Halloween: Dracula Orchids And Goblin Spiders

Dracula orchids tempt flies by masquerading as mushrooms. Goblin spiders lurk unseen in the world's leaf litter. The natural world is often just as haunting as the macabre costumes worn on city streets, as highlighted by two studies published this year ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2011 - 11:03pm - 0 attachments

The Plot Of The Week - The 327 GeV ZZ Anomaly

Higgs boson hunters often catch themselves dreaming of the boson having a mass high enough to give rise to the spectacular decay into two Z bosons, and then four charged leptons in the final state. At a hadron collider -let's talk of the LHC to be specifi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 14 2011 - 1:02pm - 0 attachments

The Looming Peanut Butter Riots

On Halloween, your Planter's peanut butter is going to skyrocket in price; as much ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 14 2011 - 4:33pm - 0 attachments

Coming Soon from a Science Festival Near You

... ncsciencefestival.org Bay Area Science Festival Halloween offers an excuse for a zombie lecture and fashion show at this big ...

Blog Post - Aimee Stern - Oct 13 2011 - 9:23am - 0 attachments

Should Researchers Blog? Should Their Employers Encourage Them?

Tomorrow I will fly to Frascati, where are the headquarters of INFN, the italian institute for nuclear physics. I will attend to an event there, called " Incontri di Fisica " (Physics meetings), where high-school teachers meet researchers and receive tr ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 5 2011 - 6:44am - 0 attachments

Rainbow connection

... song made the final cut. 4 I was Rainbow Brite for Halloween when I was a wee lass, and I had her doll and the plush Twink. If I ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Sep 27 2011 - 2:57pm - 0 attachments