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This Haunts Me: Did Scientists at CERN End the World in 2012?

This Haunts Me: Did Scientists at CERN End the World in 2012?

Do you remember 2012? People were convinced that the world was going to end — that the Mayan calendar had predicted it more than 2,000 years earlier. Protesters and time-travelers continued to decry the cataclysmic dangers of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where scientists were taking apart the building blocks of the universe to understand how

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Bewildered, bored, delighted? The Disney classics my kids loved – and the ones they couldn’t finish

Not everything has aged well, but the animator’s storytelling skills still strike a chord with 21st-century children Princesses, overpriced theme parks and a rapacious commercialisation of childhood: these would have been my suggestions if I’d been asked six months ago what I thought were Walt Disney’s legacies. Which isn’t to say that I’m anti-Disney. At

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