With opening day in baseball less than a week away (April 4th, Sox v Yankees, 1am Irish time – be there!), this is as good a time as any to do a baseball book review. But it’s also sceintific! Moneyball is subtitled “The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” and it chronicles the paradigm shift that sabermetrics brought to the game, the transition of baseball from the historical way of scouting players to the new technique which involved statistics, statistics and more statistics.
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Some very exciting news via NewScientist that the first particle of dark matter has been discovered. We’ll know on the 18th Dec - when a paper will be published in Nature, whether or not it’s the one speculated will have to wait………..
A couple of favourites from college and friends working in Science (apologies in advance!)
2 Hydrogen atoms walk into a bar. 1 stops and says:
“Oh no, I’ve lost my electron!”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, I’m positive.”
A bacterium walks into a bar, and heads towards the barman.
Barman: “Oi, no bacteria allowed in here.”
Bacterium: “It’s OK, I’m Staph!”
Interesting to see the LHC is back up and running in Switzerland. There was furore last time it was started, unfortunately it was put out of use for a number of months due to an accident. Having just smashed to particles together for the first time yesterday, there seems to be less opinion around the place. We’ll put it down tot he economy and the public sector strike!
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