{"id":1345,"date":"2009-02-17T02:49:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T10:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2022-04-17T04:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T11:24:51","slug":"what-else-is-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"What Else Is New?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is its wont, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\">the Beeb<\/a> gets things quite wrong: <div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7893689.stm\"><q>Race for <q>God particle<\/q> heats up<\/q> by James Morgan of the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">Fermilab say the odds of their Tevatron accelerator finding it first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best.<br \/><br \/>Cern's Lyn Evans admitted the accident which will halt the $7bn Large Hadron Collider until September may cost them one of the biggest prizes in physics.<\/blockquote><\/div> <\/p><p>The race hasn't <em>heated-up<\/em>; it has <em>slowed-down<\/em> as a result of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cern.ch\/\"><abbr title=\"European Organization for Nuclear Research\">CERN<\/abbr><\/a> accident, giving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnal.gov\/\"><abbr title=\"Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\" style=\"font-size: inherit ;\">Fermilab<\/abbr><\/a> a chance to catch-up and possibly win.<br \/><br \/>Speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\">the Beeb<\/a> getting things wrong (this time for lack of ethical bearings), here's and interesting (if somewhat lengthy) critique of <cite>Earth: The Climate Wars<\/cite>: <div style=\"padding: 1em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php?\/site\/article\/5753\/\"><q>Going over the top in the <q>climate war<\/q><\/q> by Ben Pile at <cite>spiked<\/cite><\/a><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As is its wont, the Beeb gets things quite wrong: Race for God particle heats up by James Morgan of the BBC Fermilab say the odds of their Tevatron accelerator finding it first are now 50-50 at worst, and up to 96% at best.Cern's Lyn Evans admitted the accident which will halt the $7bn Large [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,318,9,104,4],"tags":[181,527,189,526,182],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ethics-philosophy","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-bbc","tag-climatology","tag-global-warming","tag-higgs-boson","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11966,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/11966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}