Oh yes, I am becoming more boring and repetitive. I cannot put this down to age. It is my increasing obsession with finding the way to end poverty. I used to be so fresh and entertaining. In bed with ...

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Physicists in Toronto observe quantum “negative time”: a pulse of light appears to leave before entering atoms.