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Alexis Madrigal - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.
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The New York Observer calls him, "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." Madrigal co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC. While at Wired.com, he built Wired Science into one of the most popular blogs in the world. The site was nominated for best magazine blog by the MPA and best science Web site in the 2009 Webby Awards. He also co-founded Haiti ReWired, a groundbreaking community dedicated to the discussion of technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti.

He's spoken at Stanford, CalTech, Berkeley, SXSW, E3, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and his writing was anthologized in Best Technology Writing 2010 (Yale University Press).

Madrigal is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's Office for the History of Science and Technology. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in the exurbs north of Portland, Oregon, and now lives in Oakland.
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Guy Who Tried to Stop the LHC Loses Court Case

By Alexis Madrigal

Aug 26 2010, 9:40 PM ET Comment

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Remember the guy who tried to shutdown the Large Hadron Collider because it was endangering the safety of the Earth? Right, well, Walter Wagner's court battle ended yesterday when an appellate judge threw out his case. Physics magazine Symmetry has the story and the court filing:

After a lengthy process examining a complaint by Walter Wagner about the risks of switching on the LHC, an appellate judge has dismissed the lawsuit finding that Wagner had no standing before the court.

According to the decision, Wagner failed to show a "credible threat of harm", and that the US government does not control the operation of the LHC and therefore is not the correct party to bring action against.

Read the full story at Symmetry Magazine.




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