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Friday Nov. 20, 2009 |
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Why Scientists are Scared of CERN
20-Nov-2009
Brought down by a bird -
CERN
(the Large Hadron Collider, now powered up in Switzerland) is
scaring scientists in an unexpected way: They're afraid they
WILL discovered the "God particle." This could top a lot of the
other bad
things that have
happened recently.
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Basketball: Mathematicians Prove Umps Not Fair
20-Nov-2009
And how to succeed at free throws -
It's not occult magic, it's straight science: Lots of
interesting
things have arrived and one of these is the basketball
season. Two engineers have figured out the best
way to shoot a free throw, a frequently underappreciated
skill that gets more important as the
game
clock winds down.
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Can't Get the Swine Flu Vaccine?
20-Nov-2009
You may already have some immunity -
We may not have immunity from
war
and politics, but at least researchers have found that
previous influenza infections may provide at least some level
of immunity to the H1N1 Swine Flu.
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Vatican Searches for Aliens
19-Nov-2009
Not many people realize that the Vatican has an expensive
state-of-the-art
observatory in Arizona
that they are using to search for
extraterrestrial
life (and they hope to have results
soon!) The facility is run by Jesuit Jose Gabriel
Funes, who is also an astronomer. Did they pick Arizona not
only for its clear skies, but also because of the
Phoenix
Lights?
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