Honour & Glory – UEFA European Championship ’12

Honour & Glory

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner!
Congratulations to Troels for his stunning performance in this year’s UEFA betting game.
It’s the first time that someone ended the game with an average of more than one point per match (and Troels had 1.3). Also he managed to stay on top as a single leader for in total 28 matches.

Of course congratz also to Basti and me (hehe) for making second and third place.
It has to be mentioned that Basti as well did manage to have an average of above one point per match (1.03) and that he holds the title for the most correct tendencies in a row (seven matches).

As promised there will be prices for the first three places – to be picked up in person at our place. ;)

Thanks everyone for taking part in this year’s UEFA betting game and see you for the next occasion!

Find the results here.

Honour & Glory – UEFA 2012

Football, Honour & Glory

The group phase has finished: time for a little resumé!

It seems like my web site features a security hole and Troels has found it. Jokes aside, it’s hard not to notice his slight dominance in this year’s UEFA betting game. After his 17th and 6th place in UEFA 2008 and FIFA 2010, respectively: quite an improvement! I know that the one that laughs last, laughs loudest; but the rest of the field, including titleholder Simon, has to improve significantly to beat Troels’ lead. Well actually, there is already now some who do not have to think about a strategy to beat him anymore. Just after the group phase, this is actually a novelty for Honour & Glory football betting. Besides that, second and third place are still possible to reach for everyone in the field, though some might have to fight harder than others. Another novum is the fact that Troels continues to score on average more than one point per match (actually 1.46). And just to put out another name in this resumé, Basti managed to get the stage win for having the most correct betting tendencies in a row (seven) after the group phase.

Find the current results here.

ATLAS LEGO model media coverage

CERN, Niels Bohr Institue, Outreach

Starting last weekend my ATLAS LEGO model is out in the open … since then my visitors count on this webpage increased by 10.000! The 3D image of the model is on the front page of the ATLAS website regularly and various newspapers and blogs already wrote about it …

  • ATLAS (link)
  • CERN Courier (Volume 52, Jan/Feb 2012, p. 43 + front page)
  • CNET Crave Gadget – Rich Trenholm (link)
  • Corriere della Fanatascienza – Leo Lorusso (link)
  • CrackJack.de (link)
  • CuteDecision – “2cute” (link)
  • dailymail.co.uk – Rob Waugh (link)
  • DigitalTrends.com – Jeff Hughes (link)
  • Discovery Center – Anne Mette Frejsel (link)
  • Forbes – Alex Knapp (link)
  • French Tribune – Bruce Totolos (link)
  • Galileu (link)
  • Gandul – Ioana Nicolescu (link)
  • Geek.com – Matthew Humphries (link)
  • Geekologie.com (link)
  • Gizmodo Australia – Logan Booker (link)
  • The Guardian – LifeAndPhysics – JonButterworth (link)
  • Ingeniøren –  Torben R. Simonsen (link)
  • Laboratory News – Kerry Taylor Smith (link)
  • NyTeknik – Jan Melin (link)
  • OSEL.cz – Stanislav Mihulka (link)
  • PClabs.com.tr – Erdem Gukrer (link)
  • PCWorld – Jason Kennedy (link)
  • PhysOrg.Com – Bob Yirka (link)
  • Physics World (Volume 25, 1 January 2012, p. 3)
  • Science&Vie Junior (Volume 273, June 2012, p. 36)
  • Scoop.It – Paulo Furtado (link)
  • ShlashGear – Shane McGlaun (link)
  • Der Standard (link)
  • Spektrum der Wissenschaft – Physik WebWatch (link)
  • Supermozg.pl – Bartosz Łopiński (link)
  • SyFy Idea Lab – Tiffany Lee Brown (link)
  • SyFy Idea Lab Interview – Tiffany Lee Brown (link)
  • Symmetry Breaking – Amy Dusto (link)
  • Technology Review – Peter Glaser (link)
  • Tiede – Maria Korteila (Volume 2, 2012, p. 58)
  • TG Daily – Emma Woollacott (link)
  • Traqueur Stellaire – Guillaume Calu (link)
  • Universitetsavisen (1) – Madhura Mukhopadhyay (link)
  • Universitetsavisen (2) – Polina Chebotareva & Mike Young (link)
  • University of Melbourne – Science Matters –  Cristen Teen (link)
  • The Verge – Ross Miller (link)
  • Wired – Katie Scott (link)
  • Wired Taiwan – Min-Fang Huang (link)
  • Wired GeekDad – Roy Wood (link)
  • Wired Science – Daniela Hernandez (link)