About that big discovery last week.

This is one which we have been expecting for some time. I first read about the LIGO experiment some twenty years ago when it had just started construction and I was a young student dreaming about doing a summer placement in California—which turned out to be just a dream, but it was fun perusing the lists of student projects on offer at Caltech.

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Fluttershy continues her exploration of Scotland and fight against alien invaders.

Vectors by Synthrid and HaveBKYourWay. Background from [11].

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Math problem of the day: The Pancake Problem - What is the maximum number of flips required to reorder a stack of n pancakes so they are all ordered by size - biggest at the bottom, smallest on top.

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Just occasionally something happens which makes me think I love my job! Sadly it has not happened very often of late, but yesterday was a good day. This story began some months ago when I received a forwarded email asking if we could find a home for an orphaned spark chamber from the science museum.

My response was: What!? A spark chamber! From The Science Museum! Yesyesyesyesyesyesyes!

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Here is an interesting perspective by physics PhD Francesca Day: Writing Fan Fiction for the Universe.

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GM Berrow is true master at the art of the pony place-name pun, that unique literary device which makes our genre of writing so supremely equine.

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Hi there! It’s me—Pinkie Pie—again. I’m back because my blog post The Pinkie Pie Guide to Irrational and Transcendental Numbers was the most popular thing on Pineta’s blog in 2015, and that seems reason

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Last week Seattle’s Angels did a nice review of The Equine Comedy—a story I wrote nearly three years ago. Thank you to Archonix and Themaskedferret for this. It must be time to revisit this one.

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