Daily Archives: December 17, 2009

A Møøse Once Bit my Sister

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We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.

Crunks 2009: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections

We reached a strange milestone this year when CNN fact checked a comedy sketch from Saturday Night Live

Which I already knew, via The Daily Show

There was one correction related to a story to which I had linked (from another source, and which is now a dead link)

Bear sighting: An item in the National Briefing in Sunday’s Section A said a bear wandered into a grocery story in Hayward, Wis., on Friday and headed for the beer cooler. It was Thursday.

I really like this one:

This article was amended on Tuesday 20 January 2009. In our entry on Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon Days, we referred to a Prairie Ho Companion; we meant a Prairie Home Companion. This has been corrected.

Ah, Lake Woebegone, where every Ho is above average.

Whoa, Nellie!

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Slowed light breaks record

Although this separation process involves distorting the pulse-storing BEC – and hence the nature of the revived pulse – it is completely deterministic, which means that no quantum information is lost. By doing so, the team was able to store the pulse for up to about 1.5 s, shattering the previous record of about 600 ms. Furthermore, the fidelity of the revived pulse – the ratio of output energy to input energy – was more that 100 times better than previous systems.