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Entries from April 2008
9 April 2008
Stephen Hawking’s Cheek Muscles
Stephen Hawking brought his famous wit to a star-struck audience of students and postdocs yesterday afternoon at Caltech.
With a couple of lewd jokes and several quips on how he should win a Nobel Prize, Hawking talked about black holes, Hawking radiation–in which quantum effects can cause black holes to radiate and eventually evaporate–and the information [...]