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Rumours are emerging from the rival to the Large Hadron Collider that the Higgs boson, or so-called “God particle”, has been found.

Tommaso Dorigo, a physicist at the University of Padua, has said in his blog that there has been talk coming out of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, that the Higgs has been discovered.
The Tevatron, the huge particle accelerator at Fermi – the most powerful in the world after the LHC – is expected to be retired when the CERN accelerator becomes fully operational, but may …

Ad and I (with Josef on the right)

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Andy and I (with Mao in the background)

Andy and I (with Mao in the background)

Andy and I (with Mao in the background)

Jean-Michel and I

Jean-Michel and I

Jean-Michel and I

Jane and I

Jules and I

Mark and I

Stuart and I

Vincent and I

24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that will disappear, which includes Readers Digest, Kia Motors, Dollar Thrifty (NYSE: DTG), Zale (NYSE: ZLC), Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), T-Mobile, BP plc (NYSE: BP), RadioShack (NYSE: RSH), Merrill Lynch, and Moody’s (NYSE: MCO).
24/7 Wall St. regularly compiles a report of brands that are likely to disappear in the near-term. Last April, and again in December, we published our findings. Usually, it would take a full year before such a list could be compiled again. However, the current economic climate …

It’s official, the Linchpin Day Boston Group has found a venue. And what a great venue!
Thanks to Abby and Leah, and to the generosity of Microsoft, Linchpins from the Greater Boston area will congregate on Monday, June 10, 2010 (6:00 PM to 9:00PM) at the New England R&D Center at One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02142 .
If one or more of these words describe you:

creative soul
linchpin
purple cow
enlightened business person
entrepreneur
entrepreneur-in-the-making
marketer
innovator
renaissance woman or man
educator at large
frustrated with the status quo
social.everything

Then, this is an event where you can meet vis-à–vis like-minded individuals. …

Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says

A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today.
As the global population surges towards a predicted 9.1 billion people by 2050, western tastes for diets rich in meat and dairy products are unsustainable, says the report from United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) international panel of sustainable resource management.
It says: …

Diving into an extremely competitive and capital-intensive business in which customers generally don’t appreciate having access to beta products is not a good way to enhance your personal fortune. In fact, if Elon Musk is being honest in the latest court filings related to his divorce proceedings, it looks like a great way to vaporize a fortune.
After selling Paypal to eBay in 2002, Musk and his partners netted $1.5 billion. An unknown portion of that went to Musk, who promptly turned around and invested several hundred million into not …

THE Greek government has been advised by British economists to leave the euro and default on its €300 billion (£255 billion) debt to save its economy.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), a London-based consultancy, has warned Greek ministers they will be unable to escape their debt trap without devaluing their own currency to boost exports. The only way this can happen is if Greece returns to its own currency.
Greek politicians have played down the prospect of abandoning the euro, which could lead to the break-up of the …

Seth Godin, of Purple Cow fame need no introduction to the creative entrepreneur and marketer.
Have you read Linchpin yet? While Linchpin is not for anyone, you owe it to yourself to take a look at it, test drive a few pages at random, and see if it resonates with you. Chances are you’ll like some parts, love some others, and hate a few more. But it will make you think, it is more food for thought than a treatise; it will provoke more questions than provide answers: answers are …

Hedge funds that made millions from the implosion of America’s subprime market are betting on a similarly dramatic collapse of the euro.

Hedge funds, including Hayman Advisers and Matrix Group, have told investors that they expect the sovereign debt crisis to worsen despite the €110bn (£79bn) bail-out by the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank.

Anxiety about the financial health of Europe increased yesterday after Spain’s national bank was forced to take control of CajaSur, a savings bank ridden with distressed property debt, after a rescue …

Would you like a tax break for hiring a worker—say, a student, or even your spouse or child?
Then Uncle Sam may have a deal for you.
In March, Congress passed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment—or HIRE—Act, but the law was overshadowed by the hubbub surrounding health-care overhaul.
The law is worth paying attention to because it applies broadly. In order to encourage hiring, Congress gave employers a new, temporary tax break. For any qualified hire after Feb. 3, the employer gets to skip paying 6.2% Social Security taxes on the …

Sometime in the next few weeks, Facebook will officially log its 500 millionth active citizen. If the website were granted terra firma, it would be the world’s third largest country by population, two-thirds bigger than the U.S. More than 1 in 4 people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but have returned to the site within the past 30 days.
Just six years after Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg helped found Facebook in his dorm room as a way for Ivy League students to keep tabs on …