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Discover how Zach is reading my mind in this comic, with a twist on fully funded LHC and abstinence-only provisions.

Written byPhil Plait
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I swear, Zach is reading my mind. Click to read the punch line. But I imagine what would really happen is that this would only get fully funded as long as the LHC had an abstinence-only provision on daughter particles.

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