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...device goes into collision mode later this fall, physicists will send two beams of protons through the tunnel, in opposite directions, causing about 600 million head-on crashes every second, each of which will create a minuscule fireball that briefly reproduces conditions that haven't been seen since a millionth of a millionth of a second after the Big Bang. And out of those fireballs will emerge ... well, nobody knows for sure, or no one would have spent $8 billion to build this contraption in the first place...
...missing a tire.” Calibrated to an atomic clock—“the best measuring device man has in his quiver,” according to collaborator Andrew H. Szentgyorgyi—the astro-comb’s laser emits pulses every one millionth of one billionth of a second, providing the required precision against which to measure subtle shifts in the light from stars. “It’s like we had a ruler with only half-inches on it,” said Szentgyorgyi, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory...
...Hungry, which delivers game meat to local food banks and shelters. In Georgia, where the group was founded 15 years ago, more than 1,000 hunters delivered 5,000 pounds of meat in 2006, making 25,000 meals. Nationwide, the group is on track to deliver its one-millionth meal in December. "It's really vital now because it's the holiday season, and there's more need during the fall and winter," says Glenn Dowling, executive vice president of the Georgia Wildlife Federation. "Now is when this influx of high-quality protein needs to come into play...
...take many hundreds of words, I would like to respond to one very limited point. I agree that the Enlightenment has its flaws. Man’s nature isn’t nearly as benign as the philosophes liked to believe, as the world is re-learning, for the millionth time, at great cost. I was shocked, though, to read an article which explicitly argued not only against the idea of meritocracy but against the very idea of rationality in politics. While there are certainly spheres of human existence that rationality cannot greatly improve and may actually harm, spirituality comes...
After all, if these two projects generate as much energy as predicted, they will provide one ten-millionth of the energy generated by fossil-fuel burning power plants in America—about enough energy to power the lights in the Cabot Science Library and in one floor of William James Hall. But I firmly believe that their impact will far exceed the miniscule dent they will put in America’s present polluting ways...