It's Friday, January 23rd, 2015, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.

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For those of you that listened to last week's show all the way to the end, you would have heard me sing a snippet of a song by a friend of mine named Brian Holmes about neutrinos.

It's based on a poem by John Updike, and I have a corrugendum this week.

I talked to Katie Mac after the show and she informed me that

neutrinos, in fact now we know, do have a little bit of mass. So I'm afraid John Updike's

poetry is outdated. So for those of you that have been listening to us for a while, you might

have noticed that in past few months, I've been

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