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Welcome to Signal Boost, our weekly roundup of blog

posts over the past week.

A t iny h amster in a t iny mansion. Grrlscientisttreats

us to a video chronicling a day in the life of Chicken, a

dwarf hamster.

Go Higgs or go hom e. When the LHC was first

planned, it was guaranteed to find at least one

groundbreaking discovery. Jon Butterworthlooks at the

reasoning behind this no lose theorem.

Horton s pears a few (his tor ians o f medic ine).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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An artists impression of the Mars One colony. Image: Bryan

Versteeg/mars-one.com

In sp ace, no o ne can hear you sc heme.Zahaan

Bharmal provides an overview of the competitors with

plans to put humans on Mars.

Back to the Lancet, and a con troversial open let ter

to the people of Gazathat was publ ish ed there

recently. Steve Caplantakes it apart, arguing that the

letter was misguided and full of omissions.

On Wednesd ay, Rosetta rendezvou sed w ith 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 ou tbreak in West Afr ica is the

worst in recorded h istory, and i t s spawned a

deluge of media hype and scaremonger ing. Dean

Burnettskewers the recent coverage, and provides

some suggestions for facts that the media might use in

the future.

Since the stabbing incid ent , I have spent the vastmajor i ty of my l i fe ob sessing abo ut mater ials.

Grrlscientist reviews the excellent Stuff Matters by

Mark Miodownik.

Could c los ing st roke uni tsactual ly im prove su rv ival

rates? Richard P Grantreports on a recent paper

arguing just that , published in the BMJ.




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

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