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"Murphy was an optimist!"

Save $20billion per year April 20, 2009 4:20 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Of Interest
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See page 7.

I predict a major social change.

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Stephen Hawking Very Ill April 20, 2009 1:50 pm

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The 67-year-old physicist, who is the Lucasian professor of mathematics at the university, was undergoing tests at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge, after being taken there by ambulance today. He has been fighting a chest infection for several weeks. [Source, Guardian, Stephen Hawking 'very ill' in hospital]

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Update: Looks like Stephen Hawking is going to recover from the chest infection!

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Jeopardy April 20, 2009 8:50 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life
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"Emotions for $200 please."
"down, depressed, gloomy"
"Alex, what are words that don’t even scratch the surface for how I am feeling today?"

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