Validate Your Life

The Large Hadron Collider was such massive news that it definitely needs its own article.

LHC will reveal to us details about dark and antimatter. It’s like an opportunity to replicate some never before-seen conditions, and answer millions of unknown questions; doing that, sometimes scares people! haha.

It excites me and most scientists, too, though.

Basically it gives us an inside look into how the universe was created, re-manufacturing some big-bang like instances that will answer jumbles of of scientific questions, clarify models (like the Stand Model) that were purely theoretical practically, and illuminate a lot of “shaky and uncertain” areas of science. Basically the LHC will provide is with a “Director’s Cut Edition” on the making of the movie of the “Universe”. haha!

Here’s the breakdown of what the components will do. They basically track different things, some of which we haven’t ever known about until now.

Anti-matter tracking — LHCb is in charge of this. We’ve got a TON of matter in the universe, but can’t seem to find the anti-matter! The big bang had equal amounts of matter and anti-matter, but all we’ve been able to put our fingers on is matter. LHCb will track where the anti-matter goes in the miniaturized, microscopic Big Bang replica.

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Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about Email Organization.

Here’s my two cents on email productivity.

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Transportation: Interestingly enough, local Californians and many other commuters have grown a liking to the public transportation method of commuting they adopted to deal with outrageous gas prices not too long ago. Now that gas prices have dropped, many commuters still prefer the public transportation method. Hey, better for the environment, less pollution, and cheaper; they just have to make sure they get a good bus driver!

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Entertainment: Hollywood does it again, with the inverse relationship between entertainment and economy — if the economy slumps, movie ticket profit soars — Hollywood has made $4.2 billion from May to Labor Day. Interesting to note that the big box-office sellers were super-hero movies like “The Incredible Hulk”, “Batman”, “Hancock”, and “Iron man”. Who knew that some adventure action movies would be the big box office hits?

Humorous: Talk about your ultimate typos, The Bloomberg News accidentally released an obituary of Steve Jobs, despite the fact that he is still very much alive to this day. The multiple-paged obit, apparently “hold for release”, got out of the bag and wasn’t held. You can view it here. And here is actually a list of the embarrassing history of many untimely obituaries of the past, some of the most astonishing are Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and Mark Twain on two accounts! The painter, James Whistler, read his accidentally published premature obituary and said it actually made him feel better: “”tender glow of health”!

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