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The Full-Length Zombie Movie Made By Physics Students At CERN

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:49 pm, December 11th, 2012

Last month we showed you a trailer for Decay, a film being made by Luke Thompson and Clara Nellist, both Ph.D. students in physics. They filmed it at CERN, which you may know is home to the Large Hadron Collider, and it the plot involves the Higgs Boson particle turning people into zombies. If that doesn’t sell you, I don’t know what will. You can find out more information at DecayFilm.com but now, sit back, relax, and enjoy the feature.

(via io9)

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Physics Students Made a Zombie Movie In the Home of the Large Hadron Collider [VIDEO]

by Rebecca Pahle | 1:30 pm, November 1st, 2012

There are a lot of zombie movies out there. But Decay is the only one filmed in CERN, a.k.a. the home of the Large Hadron Collider. The film is the brainchild (mmmm… brains) of Luke Thompson and Clara Nellist, both Ph.D. students in physics, who despite having no filmmaking experience decided that, dammit, they were going to make a film about exposure to the Higgs Boson particle turning people into zombies. (If that sounds critical, it’s unintentional—jumping in and just doing it is a time-honored method for indie film.)

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the internet is serious business

The Strange, ‘Horrible’ Tale of The Web’s First Photo

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 2:03 pm, July 16th, 2012

It might seem preposterous, but the first photo on the World Wide Web wasn’t a cat meme — it was an ensemble shot of Les Horribles Cernettes, a comedy band based at the CERN laboratory near Geneva. Let that sink in for a moment. Hit the jump to hear more about how the web’s very first photo anticipated poorly photoshopped Myspace and Facebook group profile pics by about 20 years!

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she blinded me with science

Finding a Higgs-Boson-Consistent Particle Is So Cool We Don’t Know How to Express It: Here’s a Sonnet

by Susana Polo | 9:38 am, July 5th, 2012

But this is just noted sharpie-wielding math and science expert Vihart‘s take on CERN’s announcement that they’ve found, to within 99.9999% sureity, a new type of boson. And that that new particle, so far as we can tell (pending more research), conforms to the theoretical qualities of a Higgs boson. You might also be interested in knowing a bit more about what a Higgs boson is, and why it’s important. For that, we can go to Jorge Cham‘s, of PHD Comics, cartoon rendering of a scientist’s explanation:

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