Monday, September 8, 2008

Collider Triggers End-of-World Fears


On Sept. 10, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, will switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — a $6 billion particle accelerator that will send beams of protons careening around a 17-mile underground ring, crash them into each other to re-create the immediate aftereffects of the Big Bang, and then monitor the debris in the hope of learning more about the origins and workings of the universe. Next week marks a low-power run of the circuit, and scientists hope to start smashing atoms at full power by the end of the month.
Critics of the LHC say the high-energy experiment might create a mini black hole that could expand to dangerous, Earth-eating proportions. On Aug. 26, Professor Otto Rossler, a German chemist at the Eberhard Karis University of Tubingen, filed a lawsuit against CERN with the European Court of Human Rights that argued, with no understatement, that such a scenario would violate the right to life of European citizens and pose a threat to the rule of law. Last March, two American environmentalists filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Honolulu seeking to force the U.S. government to withdraw its participation in the experiment. The lawsuits have in turn spawned several websites, chat rooms and petitions — and led to alarming headlines around the world (Britain's Sun newspaper on Sept. 1: "End of the World Due in 9 Days").
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How to Icrease Your Blog Traffic

There are lots of ways we can apply to increase the number of the visitors who follow our blog regularly. Actually, I am not in need of multiplying the traffic of my own blogger since my only aim is to share my posts with the ones who are really interested in. That is, I don't care about making more money by following 15 steps which I will list below. It is just for the bloggers whose priority target is to be followed by more visitors and thereupon making more money.


* Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share
*Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers
*Make Your Blog's Content SEO-Friendly
*Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections
*Install Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results
*Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations (with link-back licensing)
* Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts
*Frequently Reference Your Own Posts and Those of Others
*Participate in Social Sharing Communities Like Reddit + StumbleUpon
*Guest Blog (and Accept the Guest Posts of Others)
*Incorporate Great Design Into Your Site
*Interact on Other Blogs' Comments
*Attend and Host Events
*Use Your Email Connections (and Signature) to Promote Your Blog
*Be Consistent and Don't Give Up