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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Violent Origins of the Crackpot Session at the APS March Meeting
Wow. The 'crackpot session' at the American Physical Society apparently started in the afternoon of a shooting by an enraged physicist whose abstract was rejected. See this BBC article for a discussion about this.
Those wacky physicists!
(Tip of the cap to whoever does Facebook posts for Physics Today.)
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The killer was not a physicist, but a mentally ill person who thought they had the answers to the universe.
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