Goin’ Down The Road
Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad: It takes a ten-dollar shoe to fit my feet… Your two-dollar shoe hurts my feet… I’m blowin’ down this old dusty road…
Archive for May, 2010
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring
It’s raining; it’s pouring. The old man is snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head, And he couldn’t get up in the morning. But how in the world can the old folks tell, it ain’t gonna rain no more?
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Magnetically-induced hallucinations explain ball lighting
arXiv: “Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) uses a rapidly changing magnetic field that is powerful enough to induce currents in neurons in the brain. Focus the field in the visual cortex and the induced eddys cause the subject to ‘see’ lights that appear as discs and lines. Move the the field within the cortex and the [...]
First results from the XENON100 dark matter experiment
Not Even Wrong: “They claim a 90% confidence level exclusion of 50 GeV WIMPs with a spin-independent elastic cross-section above 3 x 1044 cm-2, which one can compare with the recent CDMS limit of 3.8 x 1044 cm-2 at similar mass (70 GeV).”
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