The Rogue Blogger Who Keeps Spoiling Physics’ Biggest News | WIRED

On his physics-insider blog, Résonaances, theorist Adam Falkowski titled his latest post “After the Hangover.” He’s not talking about a party. He’s talking about particle physics—and the decline and fall of this year’s most-exciting-discovery-that-was-not. On July 29, Falkowski declared what CERN, the European organization that runs the Large Hadron Collider, hasn’t yet: The Standard-Model-busting maybe-particle…

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Fox News Just Learned You Can’t Pay Women Off to Shut the Hell Up | LawNewz

Since anchor Gretchen Carlson‘s bombshell lawsuit accusing former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, a handful of women have come forward with similar stories of mistreatment at the hands of Fox News executives. The floodgates really opened up this Friday when Laurie Luhn recounted 20 years of sexual harassment she allegedly faced from Ailes. In a shocking tell-all interview with New York Magazine‘s Gabe…

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Why Didn’t the Washington Post Put Hillary Clinton’s Photo on Its Front Page? | Washingtonian

Hillary Clinton became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party last night, the first woman to ever head a major US party’s ticket. Many American newspapers showed a picture of her husband instead. Here’s the Chicago Tribune (all front pages via the Newseum): The Houston Chronicle: The Arkansas Democrat Gazette! Bill Clinton spoke last night, and his speech…

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