February 25, 2008
In search of the Higgs boson
Joel Achenbach has a fascinating article over at National Geographic about The Large Hadron Collider, with amazing pictures by Peter Ginter.
The Large Hadron Collider is an enormous particle accelerator that’s being constructed by CERN, about 300 feet beneath the French-Swiss border. How enormous? Try 17 miles in circumference!
The article is full of crunchy scientific […]
Posted by Aaron on February 25, 2008, 8:45 pm permalink top | general
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February 20, 2008
email apnea?
I saw this over on BoingBoing:
Linda Stone (who coined the phrase “continuous partial attention”) has noticed that people hold their breath and breathe shallowly when answering email, a phenomenon she’d dubbed “email apnea.” She’s posted a little rumination on the long-term health impacts of impaired email breathing.
From the original article:
As the email spills onto my […]
Posted by Aaron on February 20, 2008, 5:02 pm permalink top | general
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February 9, 2008
rock climbing
This morning we went rock climbing. Indoors that is, and not on real rocks. There is a climbing gym not too far from here called Allez-Up, which translates roughly as “Up You Go”.
The whole experience was great fun, and I would definitely go again. The group I was with numbered about a dozen people […]
Posted by Aaron on February 9, 2008, 9:24 pm permalink top | general
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February 8, 2008
Let’s Play Chrono Trigger
Some dude on the Penny Arcade forums is posting a video playthrough of Chrono Trigger for the SNES. I loved this game when I was a kid. Along with Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy VI*, it was one of my favorite console RPGs.
The videos are worth it just for the nostalgia trip, and the […]
Posted by Aaron on February 8, 2008, 1:18 pm permalink top | general
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tamarin
Apparently I didn’t have enough to do already, because I’ve voluntarily added to The List. As you may or may not know, I’m eagerly looking forward to the release of 4th Edition. Eventually I would like to run a campaign using the new rules, but this won’t be happening until after our current DM (a […]
Posted by Aaron on February 8, 2008, 1:11 pm permalink top | general
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February 4, 2008
shower face and bibles
There’s a certain expression that people make when they are in the shower. That is, it is an expression that usually only occurs in the shower. It doesn’t happen often, but I am sure that we have all produced it at least once in our lives. What’s interesting is that, despite the probability that this […]
Posted by Aaron on February 4, 2008, 10:40 am permalink top | general
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