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Colliding with natures best-kept secrets - CNN.com: May 9, 10:16am 1 review physics, research, string-theory, cern, hadron-collider
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/05/09/physics.nima/index.html?iref=topnews; From the page: "Arkani-Hamed always had a great love of the natural world as a child. Though his parents are also physicists, he considers it his "act of teenage rebellion to become one too," as his mother wanted him to become a doctor. advertisement He remembers being impressed around age 14 that Newton's laws could enable him to calculate such things as the minimum speed that a space shuttle had to attain to escape the Earth's gravitational field. He'd wondered whether scientists had reached the figure of 11 kilometers per second by trial and error, shooting things in the air until the right speed emerged, until he could calculate it himself. "When I figured out how to do that for myself, I just thought it was just the coolest thing, that little old me, scratching away on my piece of paper, could figure this out," he said. "From about 13 or 14, I knew that this is what I wanted to do.""

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Alice loss would waste Ł25m: Apr 3, 9:26am 2 reviews physics, research, stupidity, lack-of-funding, funding-issues
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/7324021.stm; From the page: "UK Science Minister Ian Pearson, who was visiting the Daresbury laboratory, told BBC News that he was committed to the future of the laboratories but would not step in to guarantee funding for individual projects. "It isn't for government to make decisions on what is the best science - it is really for the individual scientific communities to do that," he said." Wow, excellent politician speak, Mr Minister. How the hell do you expect scientists to make these decisions without results, which cannot be obtained without doing experiments, which cannot be done without funding?! Plea to all voters everywhere: stop electing people who paid someone else to dissect their frogs. We need people who actually understand science and technology in government. Argh!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7207330.stm: Jan 25, 7:39am 1 review physics, science, cooperation, science-funding
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7207330.stm; From the article: UK woes could impact Euro physics By Jonathan Amos Science reporter, BBC News The future development of one of Europe's scientific "crown jewels" may be affected by the current woes over the UK's physics budget. This is the kind of thing we ought to be spending money on, instead of useless wars. When I think of the staggering amount of money that has been dropped into the twin pits of Afghanistan and Iraq, little of which seems to have been used to, for instance, actually equip our troops, or help the citizens of those countries, I feel physically and emotionally ill.

the physics arXiv blog: Jan 22, 1:19am 2 reviews physics, science, wonder
http://arxivblog.com/; From the page: "Ah always thought a fingering instability was what happened after a misunderstanding on a first date. But apparently it's also a hydrodynamic phenomenon, when one fluid displaces another." Cheeky physics - I love it :-)