Beard Liberation Front press release

15^th December

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Beard Liberation Front backs Beard Baubles but warns on beard glitter & lights

The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has warned beard wearers against participating in hipster trends for pre-Xmas ‘glitter’ beards and for wearing Christmas tree lights in the beard.

The campaigners say that the glitter can be difficult to remove and may cause serious damage to the beard. The Christmas lights can overheat and there is a danger that the beard will start smouldering causing significant damages to the hairs.

In contrast the BLF is backing Beard Baubles, miniature Xmas decorations that hang in the beard provided they are worn in a measured way.

Beard Baubles raise money for a skin cancer charity

BLF organiser Keith Flett said, beard glitter and Christmas lights are a pre-Xmas step too far and any…

by Clifford M Will.

The Physics World 2016 Breakthrough of the Year goes to the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for their revolutionary, first ever direct observations of gravitational waves.

Long awaited direct detection of Einstein’s gravitational-waves tops Physics World’s list of the 10 key breakthroughs in physics in 2016

It give me great pleasure to report that the LIGO Scientific Collaboration are to receive Physics World’s Breakthrough of the year award.  At the end of every year, the Physics World editorial team reveals what it believes to be the top 10 research breakthroughs for the past year and one of these is selected to be the Physics World Breakthrough of the year.

In recognition of this achievement, the Physics World team have created a short documentary movie with the assistance of members of the LIGO collaboration from Cardiff University.

The video features Samantha Usman, who recently wrote an excellent CQG+ entry about the…

Written by Samantha Usman, who is currently pursuing an MPhil at Cardiff University, UK under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Fairhurst. She graduated in May 2016 with a BS in Mathematics and Physics at Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, Usman worked with Prof. Duncan Brown on improving LIGO’s sensitivity to gravitational waves from binary star systems. In her spare time, Usman trains in Brazilian jiu jitsu and Muay Thai kickboxing and enjoys walks with her Australian Shepherd, Marble.

The discovery of gravitational waves from an undergraduate’s perspective

Author Samantha Usman training for competition in Brazilian jiu jitsu.

The first time I learned LIGO might have detected a gravitational wave, I was listening in on a conference call on September 16, 2015. Two days earlier, ripples in the fabric of space from massive black holes crashing into each other at half the speed of light had passed through the…