I…I.

Short blog this week. Short-ishy, I think.
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On Monday, the Large Hadron Collider became “the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV”, which beat the former record of .98 TeV, held by the U.S.A-based Fermi Lab’s collider. 
A TeV is a teraelectron volt. “Teraelectron” is a million million electron [...]

Delight of My Heart

According to WordPress, the tag that people most often click on to reach Wheat, Not Oats, Dear–the tag that calls out to the most people, the tag with the most compelling siren song, the tag that sings, it would seem–is:
I hate Lolcats

When something like this exists in the world, who among us can be surprised?
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On Friday, November [...]

Wa-Wa

This weekend, I learned that the oldest individual tree in the world is a 4,841 year-old Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in California called “Methusaleh”, after the very old personage in The Bible of the same name. Its precise location is a secret.
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GREAT BASIN BRISTLECONE PINE
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THE WORST METHUSELAH JOKE I HAVE EVER SEEN
YOU TRYING DOING A GOOGLE [...]

The Passage of Time

My mother sent myself and some brothers and sisters a few pictures from home two weeks ago, e-mail-ily. She wrote:
“For those who haven’t seen the house this fall. These are both from the back deck…Today most of the leaves are biting the dust–windy and rainy.”

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These pictures look like the house is in a goshdurn woodland glen, untouched by [...]