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The Plot Of The Week - Multiple Pentaquark Candidates

It is a bit embarrassing to post here a graph of boring elementary particle signals, when the rest of the blogosphere is buzzing after the release of the first real black hole image from the Event…

Could We See LHC Neutrinos In IceCube? The Answer, As Always, Is Five Sigma

For the (likely going to be dramatically unsuccessful) series "Questions you would have liked your son asked you when you visited CERN together", I feature today a rather unconventional curiosity…

In British Iron Age Culture, Margaret Thatcher Was The Norm

In British Iron Age society, land was inherited through the female line and husbands moved to live with the wife’s community. Strong women like Margaret Thatcher resulted.

Truth Or Consequences

From an early age, my life’s goal was to get at “the truth.” There were only two obvious career paths: Science, or investigative journalism. I went the first route, becoming an academic researcher.…