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30 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

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BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Particle beams injected into LHC
(tags: lhc)

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Nasa rocket launches successfully
(tags: space)

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Stellar blast is record-breaker
(tags: gamma NASA ray)

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29 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor
(tags: science awesome humour movies)

Seven questions that keep physicists up at night – space – 23 October 2009 – New Scientist
(tags: science physics space awesome cosmology philosophy religion universe)

BEC Homepage
(tags: science physics education quantum learning)

Large Hadron Collider switched on after year of repairs – [...]

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28 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

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not martha – Meat Hand
(tags: food halloween cooking recipe recipes hand meatloaf)

My son has cancer. He can't go into day care because of unvaccinated children. – By Stephanie Tatel – Slate Magazine
(tags: health medicine)

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27 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

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Partial differential equation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(tags: math diferential equations partial linear)

How many playpen balls would it take to fill your apartment?
(tags: math mathematics art awesome toys)

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26 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

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The McWetlog: The high cost of deep space astrophotography • mcwetboy.com
I had started to draft a blog post along similar lines to this and actually happened on it while researching stuff for my post. I don't think I can add anymore to this post – and that is my comment at the bottom anyways!
(tags: astronomy [...]

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25 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

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Cheat Sheets | studenthacks.org
(tags: science education reference tutorial math mathematics)

Ten Must Read Books about Mathematics | Math-Blog
(tags: science education reference books math mathematics toread book learning list)

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25 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

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MIT OpenCourseWare | Linguistics and Philosophy | 24.00 Problems of Philosophy, Fall 2005 | Lecture Notes
(tags: education lectures philosophy mit courses ocw)

13 more things: The axis of evil – 02 September 2009 – New Scientist
(tags: astronomy evolution)

13 more things: Dark flow – 02 September 2009 – New Scientist
(tags: astronomy universe cosmology science physics space)

040521-Venusz-fedes-750.jpg (JPEG [...]

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24 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

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GENERATION LOSS | HADTO.NET
I had a similar (although I'm sure not very original) idea to do this with an image and the photocopier at work. I even tested it with a photocopy of my hand (I was bored, it was early!) and it worked quite well – maybe I'll get round to doing it properly [...]

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