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The real danger of the LHC

There is a sobering fact, well known to science but little known in public. It is a fact related to Einstein’s famous equation, E=mc2, and one that is frightening in its scale.
The average 75 kg person (about 165 pounds), has lurking in his or her genes — or more specifically, in his or her [...]

Where are you?

In this day of Global Positioning Systems, computers and the Internet, it has never been so easy to know your exact position on the planet, down to a few feet. Such precision is rarely necessary for real life, except perhaps for those folks who has lost the ability to read a map, or who don’t [...]