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The case of the red-haired kids
This blog post first appeared, as written by me, on The Copernican science blog on December 30, 2012. — Seriously, shame on me for not noticing the release of a product named Correlate until December 2012. Correlate by Google was … Continue reading
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The case of the red-haired kids
Seriously, shame on me for not noticing the release of a product named Correlate until December 2012. Correlate by Google was released in May last year and is a tool to see how two different search trends have panned out over a … Continue reading
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Tagged covariance, deviation, Google Correlate, Higgs boson, standard deviation, Statistics, trends
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Dr. Stone on the Higgs search
On December 10, 2012, I spoke to a bunch of physicists attending the Frontiers of High-energy Physics symposium at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. They included Rahul Sinha, G. Rajasekaran, Tom Kibble, Sheldon Stone, Marina Artuso, M.V.N. Murthy, Kajari … Continue reading
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When must science give way to religion?
When I saw an article titled ‘Sometimes science must give way to religion‘ in Nature on August 22, 2012, by Daniel Sarewitz, I had to read it. I am agnostic, and I try as much as I can to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Angkor, apathy, argument, biology, Daniel Sarewitz, Higgs boson, human mind, Large Hadron Collider, logic, Tevatron
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Gunning for the goddamned: ATLAS results explained
Here are some of the photos from the CERN webcast yesterday (July 4, Wednesday), with an adjoining explanation of the data presented in each one and what it signifies. This first image shows the data accumulated post-analysis of the diphoton … Continue reading
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After the Higgs-boson-like particle, what’s next?
This article, as written by me, appeared in print in The Hindu on July 5, 2012. — The ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) collaboration at CERN has announced the sighting of a Higgs boson-like particle in the energy window of 125.3 … Continue reading
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Tagged CERN, Energy Frontier, Fabiola Gianotti, Higgs boson, Joe Incandela, Large Hadron Collider, New Physics, supersymmetry
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Hunt for the Higgs boson: A quick update
And it was good news after all! In an announcement made earlier today at the special conference called by CERN near Geneva, the discovery of a Higgs-boson-like particle was announced by physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations that spearheaded … Continue reading
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So, is it going to be good news tomorrow?
As the much-anticipated lead-up to the CERN announcement on Wednesday unfolds, the scientific community is rife with many speculations and few rumours. In spite of this deluge, it may be that we could expect a confirmation of the God particle’s … Continue reading
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