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About arjaybe

Jim has fought forest fires and controlled traffic in the air and on the sea. Now he writes stories.

287 Million Tonnes

Posted on 2012-07-08 by arjaybe

This kind of quirky story easily catches my attention. It’s a data point that’s not particularly relevant to anything, but it’s so garish that it seems important. Scientists have calculated the mass of humanity, and it comes in at 287 … Continue reading →

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A New Boson

Posted on 2012-07-04 by arjaybe

The physicists, ever cautious, aren’t calling it the Higgs boson yet. It has the right mass, in the range of 125-126 billion electron volts (GeV.) The excess of particles of that mass appearing in the experiments at the Large Hadron … Continue reading →

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Science Wants To Be Free, Too

Posted on 2012-06-19 by arjaybe

The Public Library of Science wants to set science free. So says scientist Stephen Curry in an article published in New Scientist.

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