<p>Not wanting to let Sean get away with <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/03/12/time-and-marshmallows/" title="">the only marshmallow-related post</a> this year, I'd like to bring to your attention that, for the fifth year running, the Washington Post recently held its <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/peeps" title="">Peeps Diorama Contest</a>. This would be a pretty strange topic to cover on this blog were it not for the fact that one of the entries was the wonderful ATLAS Peeped!<a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/files/2012/03/Peeps-1.jpg" title=""></a></p><div class="vert-display-toggle collapsible relative flex flex-col items-center "><div class="vert-unit mt-4 mb-3 top-20"><div ad-type="mobile-desktop" class="ad-wrapper vert min-h-boombox flex items-start justify-center" data-ad-mapping="inline" data-ad-slot="Discover/inline-ad" id="div-inline-ad-0"></div></div><span aria-label="Advertisement" class="text-ad mt-1 text-[11px] uppercase">Advertisement</span></div><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/27550/Peeps-1-300x300-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/27550/Peeps-1-300x300-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/27550/Peeps-1-300x300-s.jpg" title="Peeps-1-300x300.jpg" loading="lazy" data-id="27550"><figcaption class="fr-figcaption"><p class="fr-caption"></p></figcaption></figure><p> Designed and Constructed by <a href="http://www.sns.ias.edu/~marilena/" title="">Marilena Loverde</a> and <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/physics/people/display_person.xml?netid=newburgh&amp;display=Research%20Staff" title="">Laura Newburgh</a>, <em>ATLAS Peeped</em> is a painstaking and delicious reconstruction of the detector and its environment, with great attention to detail in adapting it to the peep universe. For example, please note the textbooks in the following (click on the photo for a full-size version) <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/files/2012/03/Peeps-books.jpg" title=""></a></p><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/27551/Peeps-books-300x224-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/27551/Peeps-books-300x224-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/27551/Peeps-books-300x224-s.jpg" title="Peeps-books-300x224.jpg" loading="lazy" data-id="27551"><figcaption class="fr-figcaption"><p class="fr-caption"></p></figcaption></figure><p> I really hope <a href="http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~mpeskin/" title="">Michael Peepskin</a> is reading this. As a theorist, I can't help but leave you with a detail with equations <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/files/2012/03/Peeps-equations.jpg" title=""></a></p><div data-embedid="4b651d8f-ea11-445f-9ea7-e776ca36eef3" id="insticator-embed-temp"></div><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/27552/Peeps-equations-300x224-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/27552/Peeps-equations-300x224-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/27552/Peeps-equations-300x224-s.jpg" title="Peeps-equations-300x224.jpg" loading="lazy" data-id="27552"><figcaption class="fr-figcaption"><p class="fr-caption"></p></figcaption></figure><p> See! And I had thought peeps would naturally gravitate towards the soft sciences. <em>Update</em>: I had earlier referred to a third person helping create this, but was mistaken, and have edited the post accordingly.</p>

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Not wanting to let Sean get away with the only marshmallow-related post this year, I'd like to bring to your attention that, for the fifth year running, the Washington Post recently held its Peeps Diorama Contest. This would be a pretty strange topic to cover on this blog were it not for the fact that one of the entries was the wonderful ATLAS Peeped! Designed and Constructed by Marilena Loverde and Laura Newburgh, ATLAS Peeped is a painstaking and delicious reconstruction of the detector and its environment, with great attention to detail in adapting it to the peep universe. For example, please note the textbooks in the following (click on the photo for a full-size version) I really hope Michael Peepskin is reading this. As a theorist, I can't help but leave you with a detail with equations See! And I had thought peeps would naturally gravitate towards the soft sciences. Update: I had earlier referred to a third person helping create this, but was mistaken, and have edited the post accordingly.

Explore the creative entries of the Peeps Diorama Contest, featuring the delightful ATLAS Peeped reconstruction!

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