Internet Recycling

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The longer you use the Internet the more you appreciate that there's very little new.  Things go in two or three year cycles. That just occurred to me when I saw this hot off the press story on the Indy website.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-homer-simpson-discovered-the-higgs-boson-over-a-decade-before-scientists-10079006.html

 

But, I had an inkling that I'd seen it before.  In fact I had - a couple of years back.

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/29/the_simpsons_and_fermat_s_last_theorem_wizard_of_evergreen_terrace_has_brilliant.html

 

So, this sparked my curiosity as to whether there was an older mention. Well, yes...

 

https://spinor.info/weblog/?p=1591

 

...almost five years ago now, and the Independent has used just about the same picture.  I know the Indy is going down the tubes, but it could at least have provided linkage to other's material, like the Beeb does.