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Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2003 has just been awarded to

Alexei A. Abrikosov
(Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA).

Vitaly L. Ginzburg
(P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia) and

Anthony J. Leggett
(University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA)

for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.

More information can be found in the press release.

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Next Space Shuttle Launch

According to John F. Kennedy Space Center – Space Shuttle Launch Schedule the next Space Shuttle Flight (STS-114) will be launched no earlier than Steptember 12, 2004, which means another delay of about half a year.

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SMART-1 ion engine fired successfully

Just a quick note, since I just got it in my mailbox: SMART-1 ion engine fired successfully 🙂

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Following some Gentoo security bugs

Since I have been using pine-maildir and there was a security update for pine but not pine-maildir I am following Bug #28877, but it doesn’t really seem to interest anyone.
Then yesterday this OpenSSL Security Advisory came out and I filed #29999, which was marked a duplicate of #30001 later. I just emerged the new ebuild for 0.9.6k which is still masked but works fine.
Finally I’m follwing #29893 about a vulnerability in Apache 2.0.47 & mod_cgi. The original bug can be found here at the Apache Bug Database.

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Richard Feynman

Well after posting the quote I just found asite which actually has a lecture about QED (quantum electrodynamics) held by Feynman as streaming video.
Actually there seems to be more interesting stuff on their site, The Vega Science Trust Homepage.

A short biography can be found here at the Nobel e-Museum