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Stephen Hawking Going To Canada

Posted by timothy on from the making-reservations-on-a-guild-heighliner dept.

thepacketmaster writes "A previous Slashdot article I posted mentioned the possibility of Stephen Hawking coming to Canada. The Toronto Star now reports that he has accepted the position. Hawking will hold the title of distinguished research chair at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics."

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  1. He'll finally get that much needed upgrade by Orion+Blastar · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    to give his voice box an accent. But now it will be a Canadian accent, eh? :)

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  2. Hawkin's Taking Off To Canada, eh by itsybitsy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We welcome our black hole overlord to the Great White North, aka Canada, eh.

  3. Hawking and Healthcare by Mordecus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I do hope someone's told him about the awful state of the Canadian health care system. With his condition, he might well be signing his own death warrant by moving here....