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The Hawking Revolution

by David Kurtz
08.12.09 | 7:23 am

The Investor’s Business Daily runs a premise-undermining pseudo-correction admitting(!) that physicist Stephen Hawking is … British.

Meanwhile, Brits are making #welovethenhs a top trending topic on Twitter.

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