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Achintya Rao 
Science Communicator | Likes: Physics, Astronomy, Technology, Computing
Occupation: Science Communicator
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2013-05-23 21:49:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Late-night #music recommendation: The Supersonics
Give this a listen. They're a band from Calcutta!
(All credit to +Vishad Sharma for introducing them to me.)
2013-05-23 14:56:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Watch #ISOLDE 's Hangout with CERN debut, as we talk about pear-shaped nuclei and the properties of Earth's rarest element!
2013-05-23 09:53:58 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
“We have managed to create exceptional infrastructure for the 1%, but what about the rest?” asks Foster. “We have big science, but small labs. How do we deliver cyber infrastructure to small groups? They need something that is frictionless, affordable and sustainable.”
2013-05-23 09:08:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
In this week's hangout we're joined by scientists from the ISOLDE facility at CERN to find out their latest news of pear-shaped atomic nuclei and a fundamental property of the rarest element on Earth.
Join this "Hangout with CERN" broadcast live on Thursday 23 May at 17:00 CEST, on CERN's Google+ and YouTube pages, with a recording later available on YouTube.
You can post questions in advance in the comments below or on Twitter to @CERN with the hashtag #askCERN . We'll pick the best ones to answer and we may even invite you to participate in the live hangout!
Read more about these latest results here:
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/05/first-observations-short-lived-pear-shaped-atomic-nuclei and
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/05/fundamental-property-rarest-element-earth
Want to watch our previous... more »
2013-05-22 21:28:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Hello, new followers! I'm guessing this is the magic of +Fraser Cain. :)
2013-05-22 07:46:46 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 4 +1s)
Renowned papers –– This may be worth a read
"Recently we discovered (cond-mat/0212043) that the majority of scientific citations are copied from the lists of references used in other papers. Here we show that a model, in which a scientist picks three random papers, cites them,and also copies a quarter of their references accounts quantitatively for empirically observed citation distribution. Simple mathematical probability, not genius, can explain why some papers are cited a lot more than the other." –– Simkin and Roychowdhury
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305150
2013-05-21 14:37:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
An artist honours the people and science of the CMS collaboration
"There’s a new splash of color at Point Five, the home of CMS detector on the Large Hadron Collider. Five vivid banners drape the gray walls of the complex, lending the warehouse a cathedral-like atmosphere. Arranged in a line, they pull the viewer’s gaze from panel to panel to land on a true-to-scale photo of the detector itself, magnificently displayed on the back…"
Read more: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/may-2013/a-banner-day-at-the-lhc
2013-05-21 13:36:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
The Cartography of Bullshit
But the problem here isn’t the “finding” that the Anglo-Saxon West is more tolerant. The problem is the pseudo-analysis. The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining to a supposedly uninformed public the complexities of the outside world. Because blogging isn’t reporting, nor is it subject to much editing (let alone peer review), posts like Fisher’s are particularly vulnerable to their author’s blind spots and risk endogenizing, instead of detecting and flushing out, the bullshit in their source material. What is presented as education is very likely to turn out, in reality, obfuscation.
Worth a read. Dig in.
2013-05-21 10:27:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Physics World was in a video call with 2 people. #hangoutsonair
2013-05-21 08:38:55 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
[Meta] DAE get the feeling that G+ streams can get very saturated? If you're following hundreds or thousands of people – many of whom post very frequently – are you able to get anything meaningful out of the platform? On the other hand, you might have thousands of people following you (as indeed, bizarrely, I do) and yet not get much in the way of a conversation from them.
I guess my ultimate question is, Should I just share more photos/GIFs of cats?
Also, please tell me why I am in your circles and what you'd like me to share. :)
2013-05-20 10:01:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)
"In 1956, an ancient bronze statue of the Lord Siva (Lord of the Cosmic Dance or Sivapuram Nataraja) was removed from a temple in India for restoration purposes, subsequently held by an Indian private collector and ultimately sent to the United States with false export documents. In 1973, the Nataraja idol was sold by a New York dealer to the Norton Simon Foundation. In the same year, the Government of India sued the Foundation, seeking the return of the sculpture. The case, however, was settled out-of-court. Under the terms of the agreement, the Norton Simon Foundation recognised India’s title, while the Indian Government accepted to temporarily assign the Nataraja idol to the Foundation in the framework of a 10 year-long loan agreement."
And what happened after the idol returned to India? It has been languishing inside a safe-deposit box and hasn't been seen by the public s... more »
2013-05-19 21:43:32 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
It's Sunday night and I am customising a subreddit's CSS.
Why do I sign up to do these things?
2013-05-17 09:29:50 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)
Read Klingon on your computer screen and other tech news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22552462 #BBCClick
2013-05-17 08:25:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
DAE know why we forget much of this in real life?
[Note to self: Be less grumpy online.]
2013-05-17 08:19:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Learn how CERN scientists teamed up with some of the world's greatest animation specialists to create a series of TED-Ed animations about particle physics.
#CERN #TEDED #Physics #Animation
2013-05-16 15:01:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Join our #HangoutWithCERN featuring TED-Ed animators, starting in a few minutes here:
Hangout with CERN and TED-Ed - Dimensions Multiplied
For more details see: http://plus.google.com/events/c6siviut81len830gkosiv5uo4c
Got a question? Post it in the YouTube comments of Hangout with CERN and TED-Ed - Dimensions Multiplied
2013-05-16 11:40:41 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)
Whoa! Yes, I know I should probably be evil and steal a GIF or two every day from here to share with you, but I'm a nice guy and prefer to point you to the original source. So, go check these out!
2013-05-15 21:28:54 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
I think that G+ has become attractive for me once more. Although, in order to use it effectively, I need to cull my circles a bit. Too much noise.
2013-05-13 15:05:15 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Apocryphal, but…
I was told recently that a group at +CERN decided to ban laptops from a meeting to ensure the participants were paying attention and to keep the meeting short. Unfortunately, with everyone paying attention, they all had something to contribute and the meeting was twice as long as usual…
#truestory ?
2013-05-10 16:23:34 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 11 +1s)
+CERN facility makes first observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei
A lopsided atomic nucleus may help to refine nuclear theory. The stubby pear shape […] may also be pointing towards new tests of particle physics that could reveal why matter became more common than antimatter in the early moments of the Universe…
Read the full article in +Nature News & Comment (http://www.nature.com/news/pear-shaped-nucleus-boosts-search-for-new-physics-1.12952) and another in +Physics World (http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2013/may/08/nuclear-physics-goes-pear-shaped). [Aside: Worryingly, I haven't managed to find a preprint on arXiv or a copy of the paper on the CERN Document Server. I thought all particle physics papers were supposed to be open-access, or am I missing something?* htt... more »
2013-05-08 08:53:20 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
Smallest lab-made drop of liquid might cause strange particle behaviour: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/may-2013/smallest-lab-made-drop-of-liquid-might-cause-strange-particle-behavior (via Symmetry magazine)
Image shows the CMS detector, credit Michael Hoch © CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration - for terms of use see http://cern.ch/copyright/CERN, for more +CMS Experiment images see http://cds.cern.ch/record/1529925
2013-05-08 07:37:59 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Black holes and firewalls, with +Tom Whyntie and +Andrew Pontzen!
2013-05-07 14:29:08 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
No more Communities invitations, please!
I have at present no interest in joining them, and I receive far too many notifications all the same. Please note that I will seriously consider blocking those who send me these invites. I don't mean to sound harsh, but it's getting a little out of hand.
Thank you.
<END RANT>
2013-05-06 12:51:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)
+David Barney (from +CMS Experiment) and +Steven Goldfarb (from +ATLAS Experiment) take us on a beautiful and educational journey into the world of the Higgs boson!
Physicists at +CERN have teamed up with +TED-Ed to create a total of five beautiful lessons on important aspects of particle physics. You can watch them all on the TED-Ed blog: http://blog.ted.com/2013/05/03/physicists-from-cern-team-up-with-ted-ed-to-create-five-lessons-that-make-particle-physics-childs-play/
2013-05-06 08:15:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
JOB ALERT: Head of Web and Social Media –– World Food Programme
Please spread the word.
2013-05-05 17:42:46 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
CyanogenMod on Galaxy Nexus
Should I or shouldn't I?
I have the latest version of JB installed but was wondering if there were any advantages in switching to CyanogenMod or another custom ROM.
2013-05-03 13:40:31 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 14 +1s)
Important! Keep this in mind. :)
#science #TEDxCERN
2013-05-03 12:47:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Tell me you're watching #TEDxCERN !
Here's a link to the live stream.
2013-05-02 20:59:52 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)
Creative Commons, heh. Check out this handy infographic.
2013-05-02 13:04:51 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)
What sort of sorcery is this?!
(Via +Lucas Taylor)
2013-05-02 11:17:32 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)
I was quite surprised not to have found such a picture of +CMS Experiment before. I didn't have a tripod and it's not the steadiest of shots as a result, but I'm quite pleased with this one. :)
2013-04-30 10:51:02 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Did you miss me, Google+?
Yeah, I didn't think so. :P
2013-04-30 09:12:40 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)
Twenty years of a free, open web –– http://info.cern.ch
On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement (https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399) that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish
Twenty years ago CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web ('W3', or simply 'the web') technology available on a royalty free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish.
The technology, invented in 1989 at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee, was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for information sharing between physicists in universities and institutes around the world.
Other information retrieval systems that used the Internet - such as WAIS and Gopher - were avai... more »
2013-02-05 10:48:02 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)
With around 25 Petabytes (25 million Gigabytes) of data generated per year from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, global computing is the only way to store, distribute and analyse this mountain of information. The world is our calculator!
Join IT experts from +CERN and the experiments to find out more about the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project - a global collaboration of more than 170 computing centres in 36 countries. What happens to the data when it leaves the LHC? How does this global calculator work?
This "Hangout with CERN" is broadcast live on Thursday 7 February at 17:00 CET, on CERN's Google+ and YouTube pages, with a recording later available on YouTube.
You can post questions in advance in the comments below or on Twitter to @CERN with the hashtag #askCERN . We'll pick the best ones to answer and we may even invite you to participate... more »
2013-01-31 16:02:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Hangout With CERN: Mouse and Mammoth Questions Live in just over five minutes!
2013-01-29 12:25:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Never-before-seen footage from internal CMS meetings!
Would you like to take a sneak peak into life at CMS? Here are some short clips from two crucial internal meetings from June 2012, right before we announced the discovery of a new Higgs-like boson.
The first meeting was the "Higgs to two photons" channel's unblinding, where the CMS Collaboration saw the results of a "blind" analysis for the first time. Read more on this procedure: http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/blinding-and-unblinding-analyses
The second meeting was an approval talk of the same channel with a "top-up", i.e. the addition of new data freshly collected by the CMS detector.
We had similar meetings for the other Higgs channels, and the final part of the video shows the CMS Spokesperson announcing the discovery of the Higgs-like particle at a CERN seminar. Read... more »
2013-01-26 20:46:55 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)
Live: Particle Physicist Sings the Blues
+Steven Goldfarb of the +ATLAS Experiment and host of the #HangoutWithCERN series sings the Blues with the Canettes Blues Band LIVE now at The Scene in Geneva, Switzerland.
Another +ATLAS Experiment physicist, the famous former rock keyboardist Prof. Brian Cox, also sings as seen here with +CERN theoretical physicists in Melodysheep's musical theme song about the #Higgs and the #LHC !
"The Face of Creation" - Higgs remix
How many rock stars are in your science team?!
2012-12-28 09:42:28 (13 comments, 31 reshares, 39 +1s)
Analyse real LHC data from +CMS Experiment in a Hangout! Do some science, this #ScienceSunday !
[Please do pass this on to those who might be interested.]
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Date: 30 December 2012
Time: 15:30 – 18:30 CET (see time slots below)
My apologies about the silence regarding this activity, despite having discussed it around three weeks ago [https://plus.google.com/102029070250833342844/posts/AQ2Uy9vzVwT].
I should also apologise about the fact that I will not be able to join the Hangout from inside the CMS underground experimental cavern (where our detector is located) this time. I will, however, join from either the main CMS Control Room so you will still be in a live connection with CERN. :)
So, here's how it will work. The "Masterclass" will be divided into three Ha... more »
2012-12-21 10:44:49 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Science magazine names Higgs boson[1] as Breakthrough of the Year
Today's edition of the magazine features special papers from +CMS Experiment and +ATLAS Experiment describing the result, as well as a historical perspective by the first spokespersons of both collaborations, who set the ball rolling over 20 years ago.
Breakthrough of the Year: The Discovery of the Higgs boson –– http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6114/1524.full
A New Boson with a Mass of 125 GeV Observed with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider –– http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6114/1569.full
A Particle Consistent with the Higgs Boson Observed with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider –– http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6114/1576.full
Journey in the Search for the Higgs Boson: The ATLAS and CMS Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider –... more »
2012-12-21 08:48:03 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)
Ok, this is quite hilarious. Who needs a lab when you have a green screen?
(Via +Rahul D'souza)
2012-12-21 08:45:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
+ATLAS Experiment has also published a paper on this observation: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5198
A simple explanation of +CMS Experiment's observation of the same phenomenon is available here: http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/unexplained-long-range-correlations-observed-ppb-collisions
2012-12-20 15:48:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Its the end of the year, so here is a run-down of all things physics to look forward to for 2013
!
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/dec/20/whats-in-store-for-2013
2012-12-20 13:11:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Melting of Upsilon mesons in collisions of lead nuclei
In 2011, CMS presented early evidence that Upsilon (Υ) particles produced in lead-lead collisions “melt” as a consequence of interacting with the hot nuclear matter created in these heavy-ion interactions. CMS has since updated and extended this result using additional data collected in the 2011 heavy-ion run, and the observation now has a significance of greater than 5σ (or 5 standard deviations), the gold standard for claiming a discovery in high-energy physics…
#heavyions #LHC #CERN #ParticlePhysics
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