Author Archives: Jon Butterworth

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About Jon Butterworth

UCL Physics prof, works on LHC, writes (books, Cosmic Shambles and elsewhere). Citizen of England, UK, Europe & Nowhere, apparently.

Research funding: Is size really the most important thing?

Posted on 31/05/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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First images of collisions at 13 TeV in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 21/05/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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First collision data from a new detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 12/05/2015 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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We should do more to secure our digital memories

Posted on 29/04/2015 by Jon Butterworth

On bit rot, Donkey Kong and old photographs At the Guardian.

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