July 2010
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The Higgs Boson Particle
Last month rumors swirled that scientists at the Large Hadron Collider found the Higgs Boson particle. Those reports were untrue, but we have made significant progress towards finding the elusive particle. Why is this such an important discovery?
What is the Higgs Boson?
The Higgs is one of the five bosonic elementary particles, each of which acts as a carrier of a fundamental property of...
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Skinny Out, Fat In
DALLAS, July 26 (UPI) — Southwest Airlines admits they bumped a skinny person from a flight from Las Vegas to Sacramento to make room for a fat person to have an extra seat.
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Does’t really seem fair that someone who requires two seats for one body should pay for a single fare. Or that I end up having to pay for five extra pounds of luggage when some lard...