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"[C]ould we put up some kind of page where people could vote on what kind of physics we would study over the course of some particular week? Maybe a choice between searching for Supersymmetry, or a high-mass Higgs boson, or a low-mass Higgs boson? "
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Life for photons can be harsh.
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"The LibraryThing Blog kindly–or unkindly, take your pick–points us in the direction of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a reworking of P&P with…yes…zombies. (The write-up promises "the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action.") I believe that zombification might be just what English departments need: a sure-fire strategy for revivifying (so to speak) the canon!"
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"Billed as the first large-scale study of its kind, the study examined surveys from more than 2,000 medical students and found some chilling results. The overall depression rate for medical students is 21.2 percent, more than double the commonly reported rate of about 10 percent for the general population."