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Worn & Wound

The PX Watches of Vietnam

This week we?re bringing back a story from April of 2018, in which Oren Hartov takes a look at some of the key watches of the Vietnam era. These watches fall into the category of ?PX? materials, or ?post exchange.? They weren?t actually issued by the military, but were commonly available to purchase at military installations. There?s a different type of collectors market for these (they lack the caseback markings of issued timepieces), but there?s a ton of variety in PX watches, and they have an obvious charm and tons of history.  Read it here

Engadget

CERN Approves Plans for a $23 Billion, 62 Mile Long Super Collider

Engadget reports on plans for a new, very expensive, and very large particle accelerator that would absolutely dwarf the Large Hadron Collider, which was designed and built to find the elusive Higgs boson particle (which it did, in 2012). The new ?Future Circular Collider? would be 62 miles in circumference, and theoretically be able to produce the Higgs boson at a greater rate than the LHC. The scope of the project is incredible – it would be one of the largest and most complex machines ever built, by almost any measure, and cons...