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Baby dwarf hamster. Photograph: Dragan Todorovic/Getty
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Welcome to Signal Boost, our weekly roundup of blog
posts over the past week.
A tiny hamster in a tiny mansion. Grrlscientist treats
us to a video chronicling a day in the life of Chicken, a
dwarf hamster.
Go Higgs or go home. When the LHC was first
planned, it was guaranteed to find at least one
groundbreaking discovery. Jon Butterworth looks at the
reasoning behind this no lose theorem.
Horton spears a few (historians of medicine). The
Lancets Editor in Chief, Richard Horton, has this week
denounced historians of medicine invisible, inaudible,
and ... inconsequential. Carsten Timmermann
responds at the H Word.
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Versteeg/mars-one.com
In space, no one can hear you scheme. Zahaan
Bharmal provides an overview of the competitors with
plans to put humans on Mars.
Back to the Lancet, and a controversial open letter
to the people of Gaza that was published there
recently. Steve Caplan takes it apart, arguing that the
letter was misguided and full of omissions.
On Wednesday, Rosetta rendezvoused with target
comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Stu Clarke
explains the point of one of the most audacious space
missions in decades.
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Even reading about Ebola in posts like this might be
dangerous. . . why are you still reading this? . . . Good god,
STOP! Photograph: David Levene
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the
worst in recorded history, and its spawned a
deluge of media hype and scaremongering. Dean
Burnett skewers the recent coverage, and provides
some suggestions for facts that the media might use in
the future.
Since the stabbing incident, I have spent the vast
majority of my life obsessing about materials.
Grrlscientist reviews the excellent Stuff Matters by
Mark Miodownik.
Could closing stroke units actually improve survival
rates? Richard P Grant reports on a recent paper
arguing just that , published in the BMJ.
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nonsecularist

I thought the Guardian had fallen out of love with Fundamentalist Atheist Pope
Richard Dawkins... But then they needed a picture of a professor.. and like catholics
grabbing for a picture of Jesus at the smallest opportunity
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