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Queen of Clubs: A History of the Large Hadron Collider, part I: Conception
Between March 21 and 27, 1984, theorists, experimentalists, accelerator physicists, and experts in superconducting magnets gathered for a workshop in Lausanne and Geneva. They were not there to discuss...
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Video: Apple Tablet Unboxing
I bought an iPad to make this video, so I hope you like it. Welcome to the future, folks! I got my first taste of the future in 1998, when I bought a secondhand Newton MessagePad 110 (introduced in...
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Qu’ainsi périssent les ennemis du Cenovis !
Note: This is now available on video This weekend is the Fête de l’Escalade, an annual commemoration of the night in 1602 when the Genevans defeated the invading Savoyards with the help of a diligent...
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E-cards of Yore
While you’re sending electronic cards to hundreds of your barely-remembered ones with a single click this holiday season, spare a thought for your parents and grandparents, who had to walk a long way...
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Five of Clubs: Marmites
This weekend Geneva celebrates the Fête de l’Escalade, so I made a video of the piece I wrote about various things called marmites, their nutritional value, use in soup cooking, and effectiveness...
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