Category: Science
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Still Chasing the God Particle!
Physicists at CERN — home of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — are bracing for a fresh assault on the tantalizing Higgs boson. In 2012 they used CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to generate subatomic debris that could be interpreted as traces of a single “God particle” (as the Higgs sometimes is called). (Don’t call it that around…
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Synchronized Fireflies of the Smoky Mountains
Just saw my first summer fireflies within the past week or two. They come out, here in East Tennessee, sometime in June. Now that July has arrived, so have they, in full force. This fractal picture I drew may be stylized, but it does depict the way these beautiful insects cluster around vegetation. In the…
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Making Workouts Feel Shorter
Did you know? You can greatly shorten the perceived duration of an aerobic workout by slightly increasing the length of songs you play while exercising. Your Astonished Tamale! editor is pretty buzzed about this new Jedi mind trick. New to me, anyway â and it works like magic: Exercise time flies by so fast that a long, hard workout…
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It Sings!
From the movie âDon Juan DeMarcoâ (1994): Sultana Gulbeyez (played by Jo Champa): âUndress!â Don Juan (played by Johnny Depp): âKill me if you must! I am prepared to die, for I cannot go on living, knowing that I defiled the memory of the woman who brought my manhood alive, and made it sing.â Sultana…