Just returned from a week in my current favourite country Finland, where I went to a ShowScience workshop in Turku. I was travelling with a large suitcase full of physics toys. Just the basics: cloud chamber, silicon detector, radioactive objects, Lego kits, LHC posters; as well as an electron, proton, positron, Z boson; up, down, top, bottom, strange and anti-charm quark plushies; and laptop loaded with virtual model of ATLAS detector. I was very restrained in my packing compared to some

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HoofBitingActionOverload is going to be unpublishing all of his stories from FIMFiction in one week. As one of the best authors on the site, that's a pretty sad thing. You all should go read his stuff before he does it, because he's a really good writer.

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