CERN’s new high-energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), went live yesterday. The $10 billion, 17-mile long particle accelerator has been 15 years in the making. Obviously, this is a major achievement for particle physics, and represents a serious commitment to “Big Science” and pure research. However, looking at the media coverage of the […]
Entries from September 11th, 2008
So long and thanks for all the fish
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Netherlands, Science, Travel
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Hackers…or ninjas?
September 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Hacker culture, Netherlands
So the Amsterdam hackers have proven to be both wily and elusive. In email correspondence, they said that they’d be at their squatted hacklab anytime from 6 pm to midnight tonight. I went on the later end because I figured things would be more active (and because it takes a fairly complicated series of busses, […]
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