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Us Open Final To Be Broadcast Live On Channel 4

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/amazon-emma-raducanu-amazon-prime-british-prime-b1918303.html Assuming Emma and Leylah play anything close to how they have through this fortnight, this could be a...
09:24 Sat 11th Sep 202182 answers, last by davebro 13:51 Sun 12th Sep 2021
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Turning Ab Into My Personal Blog, #2: A Somewhat Ambitious Attempt To Explain One Of The Key Difficulties With Particle Physics Calculations

Two months into my stay, and a little over a month-and-a-half into my work, it seems time for another update. Has to be said that the weather has meant for difficult working conditions, but the good...
13:55 Sat 17th Jul 202132 answers, last by jim360 09:02 Sun 18th Jul 2021
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Another Possible Bug -- Report Submission And Apostrophes

For some time now, I've had trouble submitting reports on posts or threads. Sometimes they go through, other times they do not, with the error message: "An error occured while trying to submit your...
10:58 Mon 21st Jun 20211 answer, last by ABSpareEditor 11:03 Mon 21st Jun 2021
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Password Change Bug

Following on from APG's post, I thought I would change my own password, in part to see why the system would not accept her new password. I found myself unable to do so... Until, that is, I thought to...
11:56 Sat 19th Jun 202122 answers, last by barry1010 09:20 Fri 25th Jun 2021
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Turning Ab Into My Personal Blog, #1: So What Is Particle Physics Anyway?

I was hoping to post semi-regular updates about what I'm doing, partly because it's good to keep AB science active, partly because it's helpful for me to think about what I'm doing, and partly because...
20:11 Sat 29th May 202148 answers, last by jim360 15:40 Fri 04th Jun 2021
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Turning Ab Into My Personal Blog, #0: Checking In

About two weeks in to my time in Croatia, may as well post an early non-science update. This is partly because about 90% of my active time has been spent sorting out endless paperwork, to join the...
19:31 Sat 29th May 202113 answers, last by gness 22:30 Sat 29th May 2021
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Moving To Croatia

Hi all This time next week, I'll be in a different country, starting a physics postdoc in Croatia. Absolutely terrified, frankly. Also means I probably won't be so active on here for a while. Having...
14:26 Tue 11th May 202161 answers, last by pixie374 22:24 Wed 12th May 2021
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Hints Of New Physics At The Lhc?

I'm posting this in news for two reasons: 1. Maximum attention to one of the day's more interesting stories. 2. Just because it has a science bent doesn't mean it didn't pick up interest from multiple...
22:12 Tue 23rd Mar 202129 answers, last by jim360 14:22 Fri 26th Mar 2021
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Wandavision

Anyone watching this and enjoying it as much as I am?
00:53 Sat 20th Feb 202113 answers, last by jim360 11:13 Fri 26th Feb 2021
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The Mandalorian Hype Thread

For those of you who are interested, it's 10 days now until The Mandalorian returns to Disney+. Best thing to come out of Disney Star Wars yet, and the second season looks set to be even better, with...
16:31 Tue 20th Oct 202050 answers, last by jim360 00:10 Sat 19th Dec 2020
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A Pardon For Ed Snowden?

One of the more bizarre stories in recent weeks has been this one: Trump is apparently seriously considering a pardon for Edward Snowden, the whistleblower that was such a big story seven years ago....
14:09 Sun 16th Aug 202028 answers, last by Answerdaquestion 01:35 Sat 26th Sep 2020
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Women Against Women's Suffrage

It is pretty obvious why I'm posting this: I'm attempting, perhaps mistakenly, to draw at least some analogy between the debate then, when women were fighting for decades to gain access to what we now...
16:51 Tue 23rd Jun 2020126 answers, last by pixie374 23:08 Wed 24th Jun 2020
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Pastor Who Calls Police Because He Was Assaulted Gets Arrested

https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/pastor-criminal-charge-dropped-struggle-not-finished/article_94cc6488-bf90-5133-b413-6f77ae7133f2.html...
12:14 Sun 14th Jun 202084 answers, last by andy-hughes 14:55 Mon 15th Jun 2020
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Covid-19 Modelling

For the two of you who may care, my ongoing personal quest to understand the latest UK Covid figures and make predictions about the future continues. Things are naturally complicated by the fact that...
15:53 Tue 05th May 202020 answers, last by Peter Pedant 20:25 Tue 05th May 2020
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Lockdown Raok

It was hard not to read the thread about AB members and how lockdown has affected them without being deeply moved, especially by the tragic stories there. It got me wondering if there was a random act...
22:56 Mon 04th May 202049 answers, last by jim360 11:44 Sat 16th May 2020
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Disinfectant Injections May Cure Covid-19

Well, certainly the patient wouldn't be worried about Covid-19 any more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtgVxGkrX1Y...
01:41 Fri 24th Apr 2020366 answers, last by jim360 20:50 Sat 25th Apr 2020
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Are The Lockdowns Working/How Effective Are They?

As is usually the case, the answers are "possibly" and "fairly, maybe?". But this is also an interesting video to see how statistical analysis can be used to even try to answer the question....
13:26 Thu 23rd Apr 202036 answers, last by 10ClarionSt 20:09 Mon 04th May 2020
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Burglary Rates Plummeting During Lockdown

Should the petty crime industry be the next target for a Government bailout? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8213795/Burglaries-plummet-30-cent-parts-Britain-coronavirus-hit.html...
13:36 Mon 13th Apr 202012 answers, last by teacake44 13:47 Mon 13th Apr 2020
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Covid-19 And The Important Of Testing

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-case-counts-are-meaningless/...
13:21 Sun 05th Apr 202020 answers, last by woofgang 15:10 Sun 05th Apr 2020
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Epidemiology 101

A highly relevant video providing a hopefully easily watchable introduction to how to model disease spread. NB: plenty of disclaimers from the video poster himself. Toy models only. But still highly...
22:58 Fri 27th Mar 20205 answers, last by jim360 17:35 Sun 29th Mar 2020

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