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Downloading by Students Overstated :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education The MPAA inflated numbers for student downloading by a factor of three. Gee, and they seemed so honest... (tags: academia movies computing stupid internet) blogs | The A.V. Club Nathan…
You may or may not have noticed the absence of the "Links for [Date]" posts the last couple of days. There's been some sort of glitch at del.icio.us, and they didn't auto-post the way they usually do. You may or may not have missed them, but I do, so below the fold you'll find the big long list of…
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You missed the best quote from the NYT article on the LHC, right at the end:

According to Nima Arkani-Hamed, a particle theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,

"because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, 'the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.'"