Blank On The Map: Links for the week - dark matter special

A longer blog posting should ready by the weekend, but is proving a little harder to write than I had hoped. In the meantime, here is a collection of interesting things to read elsewhere. I will make this sort of a roundup of worthwhile links a weekly feature on this blog, though it will make more sense to put it out at the weekend next time. Anyway, here you go:

Physics links:

• Dark matter detection experiments have been in the news a lot recently. A couple of pre-prints have claimed to have seen some tentative evidence for a dark matter annihilation signal in gamma-ray data from the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi satellite, that somehow wasn't seen by the Fermi guys themselves. Matt Strassler discusses the first of these papers here. Rhys provides a nice short summary of both; you may also want to read a more bombastic discussion on Lubos Motl's blog.

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