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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

The LHC and particle physics

BBC News: Particle beams injected into LHC. Engineers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have successfully injected beams of particles into two sections of the vast machine. An LHC spokesperson said this was the first time particle beams had been inside the LHC since it was shut down late

Lift off in T Minus Five

The St Louis NaNoWriMo region had our kick off party on Saturday at Racanelli's on the Loop. Old friends were reunited, new friends were made, pictures were taken, I discovered I like tiramisu, and found out what an Irish Martini is (irish whiskey, chilled, served in a martini

Workspace

This is where I spend a lot of time, my desk in the craft room: The bay window lets in the afternoon sun and my IKEA desk matches the shape of the window, we stained it together in the new garage. Still a novelty that, we have a garage and

The Word Wrangler and the Pointy Stick

Way back in the mists of time in November 2007, there were two Municipal Liasons for the St Louis region of NaNoWriMo, Denise and Jen. It was decided that since we were engaged in regional Word Wars with the I-70 corridor, we needed an official cheerleader, someone to rally

Tweets for the week of October 23rd

* In work ridiculously early and no-one can find the light switch, not me, not former boss, not big boss, all wandering around in the dark. * Stupid light switch hiding behind stupid fake tree in the lobby, we have light now, former boss found it. Who hides a light switch?

Three things

Three knitted things were lost in the move from one house to another. Three things I initially thought I wouldn't use, and then used constantly. Casualty #1: Roll-brim hat This hat was an experiment with two-colour knitting using Rowan Cocoon, which is not the best for

Almost, but not quite

Finished half of the Flutter scarf at Saturday morning knitting with Karen in Borders cafe, picked up the stitches for the second half in a quiet room at home and had a horrible time re-starting the pattern. I need to rip it out several rows, a pattern and a

NaNoWriMo meme

Swiped from Merinda's blog, originally from Benjamin Solah, who has a list of other people who have done the meme. When and how did you find out about NaNoWriMo? How did you go? I spotted it on Shirl's blog in 2004, and Hubby suggested I give

Tweets for the week of October 16th

* Alert level holding at two teaspoons of sugar in tea: in work till 3pm, wedding at 5:32pm, meeting Hubby partway there, NaNo meetup tomorrow * At home, fixing recalcitrant sock for the third time after a major rip out. Someday I will actually finish something, and it will be good.

Have you seen this boson?

BBC News: 'Magnetic electricity' discovered. Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones. The work is the first to make use of the magnetic monopoles that exist in special crystals known as spin ice. Writing in Nature

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