Re: What about the deaf folk?
The listenable captcha is completely independent of the text-based one; last time I checked it was a sequence of numbers read out over a noisy background of chatter.
Posts by Dragon Dave
6 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jul 2011
Google plonks reCAPTCHA on Street View, makes users ID your house
Bring your backups out of the closet! It's time for 'Tape Pride'
New ATLAS particle part of 'everyday mass'
Wednesday 28th December 2011 00:31 GMT 
Not "responsible" for mass.
From the press release: "a lot of the mass of everyday objects comes from the strong interaction we are investigating using the chi b.’
It's like saying "A lot of the mass of people comes from meat, which we are investigating using mice"; meat's involved in both cases, but that doesn't mean we're made of mice.
Aussie scientists develop radioactivity-trapping nanofibers
CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment
Monday 18th July 2011 13:30 GMT 
They're not climatologists.
As the article states, this is only a single input into climate modelling. Particle physicists weighing in directly on Global Warming would be inappropriate, since they wouldn't understand the details of the various climate models this data will go into.
Hopefully in the coming weeks and months we'll see how this affects our view of the climate.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
