Sunday Puzzle Blogging: Science and Fordian edition
Welcome to Sunday puzzle blogging. After months of enjoying Juliewolf's and Nova Land's puzzles, Fordian Analyst and I have constructed some puzzles for your enjoyment, including the traditional...
View ArticleNew Year's Sunday puzzle--physicist's edition
Welcome to the first Sunday Puzzle of 2009! We have an assortment of puzzles, ranging from riddles to the world famous Acrostic. Last year, juliewolf and Nova Land constructed most of the puzzles....
View ArticleDark Matter Expt: Announcement Imminent
At 5:00 EST, physicists on the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment (CDMS) are giving seminars at the nation's leading high energy physics laboratories, Fermilab (Chicago) and SLAC (Stanford), to...
View ArticleSunday Puzzle Potluck --Nova Land gets a break
Welcome to Sunday Puzzle Potluck. Every week, at 9:30 am Eastern time, Sunday Puzzle is posted with puzzles suitable for group puzzle-solving. Our puzzle master is Nova Land. This week, Nova is...
View ArticleHiggs Boson Announcement Coming Soon
NOTE: Results announced Friday morning. A new diary will be posted at a little after noon Friday, although it will assume the reader has read this.The most important particle physics conference in...
View ArticleHiggs Boson Announcement v2.0
Monday evening, I posted a diary mentioning that the most important particle physics conference in 30 years was beginning at the end of the week, and that we would almost certainly learn something...
View ArticleHiggs Boson Announcement v3.0
The 2011 run of the Large Hadron Collider is now over. It stopped on October 31st, and will resume in March. In the last two months, the LHC has far exceeded expectations. None of the data...
View ArticleNH Union-Leader to Endorse Newt
The endorsement of the Manchester Union-Leader is crucial in the GOP NH primary. After rumors yesterday that it was going to Perry, Faux news is reporting that it is going to Newt.Fox News has...
View ArticleHiggs Boson Announcement v4.0 -- EVIDENCE - UPDATE-LIVEBLOG LINK
UPDATE--There is a very nice summary of the Higgs, what is expected and a liveblog during the talks at http://blog.vixra.org/Tomorrow morning (at 8:00 Eastern time), an extremely important announcement...
View ArticleBraking: Superluminal neutrinos NOT
Last November, the physics world was stunned by the announcement from the OPERA collaboration at CERN that neutrinos from CERN (in Geneva) to the Gran Sasso laboratory (under Mont Blanc in the Italian...
View ArticleHiggs Boson Announcement v5.0 -- DISCOVERY!!!!
A few minutes ago, one of the most important announcement in particle physics in the past 30 years was made by scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, in Geneva. For decades,...
View ArticlePPP polls VA, NC -- good news
PPP has just released their poll for Virginia and North Carolina.In 2008 Barack Obama put North Carolina and Virginia in the Democratic column for the first time in decades. PPP's newest poll in those...
View ArticlePPP--VA Obama by 8 !!!
Just out from PPP: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/ First, without Virgil Goode on the ballot:PPP's newest poll of Virginia finds Barack Obama leading by 5 points, 50-45. In 8 Virginia surveys PPP...
View ArticleVirginia GOP electoral-vote scheme thwarted
As has been mentioned in many diaries, a subcommittee of the Virginia State Senate voted to change the manner in which electoral votes are counted. Applied to 2012, it would have given Romney 9...
View ArticleHiggs boson update - one year later
The most important discovery in particle physics in the past 40 years was announced last July 4th. The long-sought Higgs boson was discovered. This diary is to update you all on the current status...
View ArticleSunday Puzzle (from science)
Welcome to Sunday Puzzle. I'm dong the puzzle today, for a change of pace. I made up a JulieCrostic (instructions below) and a couple of puzzles from Nova. If you wish to add a puzzle, please do...
View ArticlePPP--"GOP could lose the House in 2014"
Public Policy Polling has just surveyed 24 House districts currently occupying by Republicans. In 17 of them, a generic Democratic candidate is ahead, in 4, a generic Democrat is ahead when the...
View ArticleHoly S***, Rasmussen: McAuliffe 50, Cucc 33
Rasmussen has McAuliffe leading by 17 points. Sarvis has 8%. Having 500,000 pissed off federal workers in Northern Virginia is having an effect--http://www.rasmussenreports.com/...In addition, PPP...
View ArticleVA-AG: Obenshain's lead at 82 votes, still Dem-leaning provisionals to count....
Last night, the Fairfax absentee ballot results were announced. Herring (the Democrat) picked up 1130 votes (there were just over 3,000 ballots, but he only got 68.8%, somewhat less than expected)....
View ArticleJosh Marshall supports Warren as VP!
Josh Marshall has reconsidered his previous view that Warren should not be on the ticket. He argues that it is worth 6 months of an additional Republican Senator to have her as the VP pick. (It’s...
View ArticleWoo-hoo! Another Senate seat in play. Evan Bayh is running.
Just a brief note. Another Senate seat might be in play this cycle. The Indiana Senate seat held by Dan Coats, who is retiring, was going to be between Baron Hill and Todd Young. Young is...
View ArticlePPP: Clinton 49, Trump 45 in PA. No word yet on Senate.
PPP has just released its survey of Pennsylvania. Clinton leads by 4 in the head-to-head, or by 3 in a 4-way. They also polled the Senate, and should release those results later today. Poll...
View ArticleCBS poll: Hillary up 49-37 in Virginia
After a very odd poll from RABA showing Trump up by 4 in Virginia, some wondered why Clinton was pulling her advertising from Virginia. Now we know. CBS Battleground States poll has her up by 12....
View ArticleSt. Leo poll of Florida, Clinton by 14
An earlier version of this diary linked to a June poll. This is new. The link ispolls.saintleo.edu/…Aug. 14-18, 1500 registered voters, MOE 3%. St. Leo is rated C+ by 538. Not the most...
View ArticleNew PPP polls, Clinton leads in PA (+5), NH (+5), IA (+2)
Hillary leads in PA, 48-43, NH 46-41 and IA 45-43. The tweet is attwitter.com/…No details yet (RV/LV, demographics, etc.), but PPP is pretty reliable. If anything, they are slightly R-leaning this...
View ArticleWOW! NBC/WSJ Hillary by 7 (H2H), by 6 (4way) nationally!
Just getting this up quicklywww.nbcnews.com/…48-41 H2H43-37-10-3 4wayThese are LV. Registered is almost identical.ARG also had a poll up today with 47-44 Hillary. Slightly oversampled men (by 2%).
View ArticleNew poll, OH, C +3 LV (William and Mary)
There’s a new pollster on the block, so no track record. But an interesting techniquewww.scribd.com/... TARGETSMART AND WILLIAM & MARY RELEASE POLL OF OHIO LIKELY VOTERS -Clinton 40, Trump 37...
View ArticleMonmouth, Colorado, Clinton + 11
Just in from Monmouth (which has a slight Democratic lean — 1-2 points). Clinton 49, Trump 38, Johnson 7, Stein 3. Details at www.monmouth.edu/…Quinnipiac has polls within a couple of hours at FL,...
View ArticlePPP-Florida, Clinton +4 (4-way), +5 (H2H).
Just out from PPP: www.publicpolicypolling.com/…Clinton leads by 4 (4-way) and 5 (head-to-head). Even better, the undecided voters were asked their favorability views of Trump and 0% had a...
View ArticleHarwood: GOP strategist - Trump's numbers collapsing: Hillary: IN-even, PA +...
John Harwood covers the economy and politics for CNBC and the New York Times. He is well-connected and talks to lots of Republicans: He just tweeted:---Senior GOP Senate strategist: "Trump now tied...
View ArticleFat lady singing? Cruz, Lee oppose Graham-Cassidy
From Politico: www.politico.com/…Sen. Ted Cruz said today that he doesn’t support the latest Obamacare repeal plan drafted by Sens. Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham and suggested that the proposal also...
View ArticleVirginia House recount - Dem wins! 11,608 to 11,607. Legislature now tied!
In the 94th district of the Virginia House of Delegates, the Republican Yancey had a 10 vote lead over the Democratic Simonds. At the moment, they have recounted all of the precincts except...
View ArticleKatie Arrington (SC-01) seriously injured in car accident
Katie Arrington, who defeated Mark Sanford in the primary a couple of weeks ago in the 1st congressional district, was seriously injured in a fatal car accident last night. Details at CNNArrington...
View ArticleAnother Senate seat in play?
Another Senate seat? Word is that Mike Pompeo will NOT run for the Senate. Headline: “White House advisor says Pompeo will not run for Senate”. See thehill.com/…If that is the case, the...
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ERA passes in Virginia, the 38th state to ratify the ERA.
The ERA has just passed in Virginia. The vote in the House of Delegates was 59-41. The vote in the Senate, under an hour later, was 28-12.This now makes 38 states to ratify it. Two issues remain....
View ArticleWest Virginia might annex part of Virginia
The rural counties in Virginia are “up in arms” about some of the gun legislation being considered in Richmond. There will be a huge gathering in Richmond Monday, and the governor has declared a...
View ArticleTerrific Fox News Polls: AZ, B+9; WI,B+8; NC, B+4 and good Senate news too
From Political Wire:New Fox News polls:Arizona: Biden 49%, Trump 40%Wisconsin: Biden 50%, Trump 42%North Carolina: Biden 50%, Trump 46%And the U.S. Senate races:Arizona: Mark Kelly (D) 56%, Martha...
View ArticleGOP Senator Thom Tillis tests positive
Thom Tillis has tested positive. xBREAKING — Sen Thom Tillis also tests positive for covid-19, his office says. Tillis is also a member of the Judiciary Committee, was at the White House SCOTUS event...
View ArticleWOW! ABC/WaPo: Biden up 17 in WI and 7 in MI.
With all of the angst about the SCOTUS ruling on WI absentee ballots, it won’t matter. Biden up 57-40 in Wisconsin, according to ABC/WaPo. Yeah, it is probably an outlier, but not by that much....
View ArticleFinal NYT/Siena polls: Biden - WI + 11, AZ +6, FL +3, PA + 6
The New York Times / Siena final polls of four swing states are out. www.nytimes.com/…Biden leads 52-41 in Wisconsin. Given his double digit lead in Michigan, he needs one more big state. The...
View ArticleVirginia poll just out. Good news.
The Wason Center, which is one of the higher quality polls in Virgina, has just released their latest results. Survey at cnu.edu/...Bottom lines:“Former Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe leads...
View ArticleElaine Luria (VA-02) on the Jan. 6 investigation
Elaine Luria, my congresswoman (VA-02), is on the Committee investigating the January 6th attack. She was interviewed by Chris Hayes on MSNBC. The video and the excerpts I show below are from...
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