fearhugs

Yes... is this an American phrasing? I (from UK) would definitely write this as "renewables and nuclear".

+1 For introducing me to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect which I didn't know had a name before

Looks like an ancient version of the PDG review booklet

http://pdg.lbl.gov/index.html

100% agree. Would have thought $5.3m is barely be enough to fund a proper advertising campaign.

> better statistical significance

I can tell from your comment that you understand this already but we should avoid talking about improving statistical significance when what we really mean is reducing the sampling error or the systematic effects---which would of course actually reduce the significance if the hypothesis is incorrect.

"Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change."[1]

I think the above comment is questioning whether this container is causing `adverse' change. If not then I suppose this particular case wouldn't be classified as pollution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution

A lot of the comments on the page address the fact that the BBC sounds app isn't available outside the UK so switching isn't an option. That seems like a pretty serious oversight...

I read the comment as saying that the postdoc kept his reservations about power law distributions to himself until after he had tenure, so as to not upset the applecart I suppose... ?

(HEP Phd, finishing)

I'll also be joining the data science world.

There's some debate about whether it's the best or worse time ever to be in particle physics. Either way I see a field that is overstaffed. Add to that the fact that CERN accelerators are shut down for two years and we're in the middle of the european strategy review.

Seems like a good moment to take some time out