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Higgs 101. This is a few years old, but still good.
Final Word from the Tevatron on the Higgs Hunt
Live-Blogging the Higgs Seminar
The official Press Release: CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson
The Biggest Firework of them all: The Higgs!
New baby boson is born, weighing in at about 126 GeV
Does 5-sigma = discovery? [Yes]. What all those sigmas mean, and the difference between random and systematic error. Also see The Higgs Boson – Certainly, certainly (?) there! (at least, I am pretty certain it is).
There should be a Nobel Prize out of this, but who should get it? This is a non-trivial problem. On the Higgs row and Nobel reform
The Queen of Carbon
Suburbanites Take Swing at Ancient Mower
Who Needs a WeedWacker When You Can Use a Scythe?
Patrick Crouch, 35, bought his [scythe] to tend a community garden on central Detroit’s “urban prairie.” He likes it because it’s “totally brutal.” As he blogged: “What could be more badass than walking the streets of the Motor City with a scythe slung over one’s shoulder?”
To Protect, Serve, and Sell Out:
The Mongol Imperial Guard and the Roman Praetorian Guard
Whereas the Mongol Imperial Guard were created with honest intent and found to be exclusively loyal to their political patron, the khan, the Roman Praetorian Guard were often bribed to sacrifice their own values for the political agendas of the Senate and swayed by their own agendas to oust one emperor for another better suited.
From RogueClassicism.
Copy Editing in the 21st century
What was the point of making a fuss over a “than” for a “then” in a piece so full of profanity? There should be a detox facility for proofreaders who have undergone this kind of extreme experience.
From Jennifer Ouellette.
The Secret of a Successful Programming Language?
With an important qualification:
Grace Hopper, the brains behind Cobol, a seminal language that arrived in 1959 and is still used today. Apparently, if you’re biologically incapable of growing a beard, the programming gods cut you some slack.
The End of the Britains
Quiet
Another spiral “UFO” lights up the sky.
UFO widely seen in Middle East skies, linked to Russian missile test has an update from James Oberg, explaining that the spiral does not indicate a failed launch, but is a deliberate feature needed for the trajectory the Russians wanted.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 