PETER HIGGS AND FRANCOIS ENGLERT WIN THE 2013 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PREDICTING THE EXISTENCE OF THE HIGGS BOSON
It's been a long time coming. Higgs predicted the existence of what has become known as the Higgs boson many years ago--on paper--but finding it had to wait for the LHC to be built and fired up.
As we wrote some time ago, it has been something of a race to see if the now elderly Higgs would live long enough to see if the Higgs boson would be found before he died, and we predicted he'd win the Nobel Prize in physics if it was found in time. It was.
Now, the major goal in physics is to find and understand dark matter. On paper it exists. But where is it, what is it, and what is its exact nature? More Nobel Prizes are waiting for answers.
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USC, OCCIDENTAL UNDERREPORTED SEXUAL ASSAULTS
Here's what is missing from the above LA TIMES article: The race of the attackers and the race of the victims. Our guess is that most of the attackers were non-White and few of the victims were Black.
So, why would two colleges underreport sexual assaults? Two reasons. The first is because they want students and parents to think the areas where the colleges are located are safe so there won't be White flight away from them to safer schools. Second, they suffer from PCitis and don't want to report Black on White crime.
Violent crime is not aracial. People commit violent crimes. Full descriptions of the violent criminals and their victims should be given in every crime story so the public can be aware of dangerous situations and locations.
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