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Physics Can Change the World!

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Clifford
on November 6, 2008
in humour, politics and science in the media
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colbert lhc obamaLast night, Stephen Colbert suggested that the Large Hadron Collider is responsible for Obama’s victory on Tuesday! When it switched on back in September, it kicked us into an alternative universe in which everything was the same except that McCain’s position in the polls had been eroded, and, well, you know the rest.

(Apparently it also explains the World Series result, but as I know nothing about baseball, I cannot tell if that is really supposed to be an anomaly or not.) Clip here, and item in question is about 2 minutes in.

Hey team, run and cover… he’s on to us!

-cvj

Colbert Report: Science - What’s the Big Deal?

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Clifford
on May 29, 2008
in fun, humour, science and television
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Brian Greene, theoretical physicist and one of the founders of the World Science Festival in New York (May 28th - June 1st), talked to Stephen Colbert about the excitement of science, and how the festival will give people a chance to see lots of fun exhibits and chat with scientists to find out about the wonderful “adventure story” (nicely put) that is science. He manages to do this pretty well, between giggles generated by sharp fun-poking from Colbert.

There’s the festival, large-breasted alien robots (their words), some fun quips about Continue reading ‘Colbert Report: Science - What’s the Big Deal?’