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Message 1983633 - Posted: 6 Mar 2019, 13:33:49 UTC

Not enough!
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Message 1984074 - Posted: 8 Mar 2019, 8:02:15 UTC

Fan fiction audio podcast.
Star Trek Outpost.

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Message 1984080 - Posted: 8 Mar 2019, 9:11:57 UTC

"My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry", Fredrik Backman.
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Message 1984268 - Posted: 9 Mar 2019, 11:27:49 UTC

The Higgs Force by Nicholas Mee. Very readable and well-reviewed story of the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Higgs_Force.html?id=J8YzkU0vXEMC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Managed to get a signed copy from the author at Astrofest 2019 in London 8/9th February.
Has some other interesting books too: http://www.nicholasmee.com/
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Message 1984276 - Posted: 9 Mar 2019, 13:25:35 UTC
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From Le Scienze online magazine I read an article by QuantaMagazine.org how the Higgs field (not boson) holds many surprises. The triple Higgs boson decay is a Higgs boson decaying in two Higgs bosons and is heavily searched. From the LHC@home news messages I learn that 10 billion events have been analyzed by the Atlas cooperation, with 784 millions done by BOINC users, about 7%. About one of those millions was done by me.
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Message 1984523 - Posted: 11 Mar 2019, 8:26:52 UTC

"Brief answers to the big questions" by Stephen Hawking, posthumously. It has a preface by Kip S.Thorne,Nobel prize for discovering the gravitational waves. There is a chapter also on the possibilty of alien life, which mentions Breakthrough Listen.
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Message 1984811 - Posted: 12 Mar 2019, 21:08:23 UTC

The Sharing Knife series by Lois Bujold.
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Message 1984874 - Posted: 13 Mar 2019, 1:57:06 UTC

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Message 1984941 - Posted: 13 Mar 2019, 15:02:12 UTC - in response to Message 1984874.  

The Calendar for March 2019, 3.14.2019 is coming...


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Message 1984988 - Posted: 13 Mar 2019, 21:05:27 UTC

I'd better get a pie.
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Message 1985027 - Posted: 14 Mar 2019, 2:10:26 UTC

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Message 1985031 - Posted: 14 Mar 2019, 3:33:36 UTC

"World Shift" by K. Gorman, a science fiction story and the fourth installment in a series called the Eurynome Code. "Black Dawn" was the first installment. Been reading them on my kindle. Decent story line but the end of "World Shift" left a lot of unanswered questions and so far that is the last book in the series.
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Message 1985051 - Posted: 14 Mar 2019, 10:01:47 UTC - in response to Message 1984276.  

Thanks for this Tullio
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Message 1985229 - Posted: 15 Mar 2019, 4:40:24 UTC - in response to Message 1985027.  

Plenty of PI here.


A friend brought by some leftover Strawberry/Rhubarb Pi. Apparently everyone brought 1 plus 1 just in case. So everyone went home with one.

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Message 1985247 - Posted: 15 Mar 2019, 8:13:06 UTC

The IMDb Bio of Madge Blake(Aunt Harriet in Batman), turns out this lady was involved in WWII, though in a different way than My dad or uncle were.


Madge Blake(left) and Alan Napier(right). In a scene involving Batman, Robin, and The Riddler.

During World War II, she and her husband, James Lincoln Blake, worked in Utah on construction of the
detonator for the atomic bomb and performed such jobs as testing equipment destined for the Manhattan Project.
The couple received a citation for their work from the U.S. government.

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Message 1986452 - Posted: 22 Mar 2019, 1:43:22 UTC

"My Own Words", Ruth Ginsburg.
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Message 1987741 - Posted: 29 Mar 2019, 12:31:39 UTC

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Message 1987768 - Posted: 29 Mar 2019, 15:49:59 UTC

An Andre` Norton (Mary Alice Norton, I think) compilation that was re-edited, a cleaned up version costing $1.99(?). I am re-reading "Storm over Warlock" at the moment.

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Message 1987776 - Posted: 29 Mar 2019, 16:07:18 UTC

Ghost in the Shell (manga) by Masamune Shirow.

I can see the changes made from this when the animated movie was made were for the better.

Ghost in the Shell: In a world where the human mind can be reprogrammed like a computer, at what point does the human soul end and the cybernetic machinery begin?

What does it mean to be human?

From Masamume Shiro, creator of Appleseed, Orion, and Dominion: Tank Police. an epic, dystopian tale of politics, covert operations, and cyborgs with too much attitude.

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Message 1987816 - Posted: 29 Mar 2019, 18:58:31 UTC

A Classified Manual, sorry I can't tell ya what's in it, only that it's Classified.
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