CERN
About CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, a western suburb of Geneva, on the France–Switzerland border. It comprises 25 member states. Israel, admitted in 2013, is the only full member geographically out of Europe. CERN is an official United Nations General Assembly observer.
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There's a project going on at the moment where there's a guy who works at CERN — he works a couple of offices down from where Berners-Lee worked — and he's trying to preserve the earliest bit of the internet, where we have the first websites and so on, and the very first website is missing, which is the one that Tim Berners-Lee created.
from No Such Thing As A Delicious Emergency Salad, 2020-08-28 at 00:20:11 · read transcript
Other times CERN came up
It was a man called Bent Stumpy. No. Bent Stumpy. What a first name for Mr. Mr. Stumpy. He was an engineer at CERN, and he was working with someone called Frank Beck. Frank Beck asked Bent Stumpy to solve the problem of to build some hardware for an intelligent system, which in just three console units would replace all the conventional buttons and switches. Sorry, I was just reading that.
368: No Such Thing As The Knipper And The Corpse, 2021-04-09 · listen
It's here. It's all bread-like. That's why they turned it off. Job done. The Higgs baguette. The Higgs boson is covered in tuna mayonnaise. Surely someone's marketing a Higgs baguette now in Paris. There was a guy who broke into CERN. He broke in. His name was, how would you say this, Andy? Elois? Elois. Elois Cole. Strangely dressed man. He said that he traveled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.
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This is getting a bit desperate. There was a Dutch war memorial that had something engraved on it in Comic Sans, which is really inappropriate as well. I was looking a bit more into CERN, just the history of CERN, and there's a few famous things I think a lot of people know. For example, the first image that was ever put on the internet was of a band that worked at CERN.
127: No Such Thing As 'Carry On Colliding', 2016-08-19 · listen
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