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Happy Twentieth Birthday, World Wide Web

By on April 30, 2013 in Internet
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Today marks the twentieth birthday of the world wide web project. The concept was invented by Physicist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at the CERN laboratories in Geneva, Switxerland, but the web wasn’t put into the public domain until April 30, 1993. It was this making the technology available and royalty-free, along with a code library […]

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Your Crash Course In Particle Physics: The Higgs Boson (kind of) Explained

By on July 9, 2012 in Culture, Future Tech, Odds And Ends, Science
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With the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in French) earlier this week, it’s about time you learned a little bit more about particle physics, isn’t it? Before you go celebrating with a bottle of champagne, in the style of physicists currently celebrating all over the globe, here’s […]

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