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Oh shit! Run!
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Crazy people seek an injunction to keep the LHC from destroying the universe.
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"If you could be in charge of a new program on the channel of your choice and had an unlimited budget what kind of show would you create?"
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His Holiness explains the single-photon chip results from the Zeilinger group, so I don't have to.
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"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
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Something to look forward to next year...
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According to Nima Arkani-Hamed, a particle theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,
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