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October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween تحرير ليبيا

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October 4, 2011

The Fat Lady Sings

I was chatting with our new postdoc, and the conversation went something like this:

Mohammad: So, why aren’t you blogging any more?
Jacques: If I were blogging, I would probably be writing posts about superluminal neutrinos. Surely, that’s not what you want.
Mohammad: Hmmmm….
Jacques: On the other hand, Cohen and Glashow wrote a very nice paper laying that whole miserable subject to rest.

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