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How did this get on the science page?

At the Guardian.

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Science Weekly podcast: An accelerated guide to the Higgs boson

A podcast I did for the Guardian with Ian Sample and Alok Jha.

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Perturbation theory: are we covering up new physics?

A timely award of the J. J. Sakurai Prize acknowledges how hard it can be sometimes to pin down what the Standard Model really thinks Read more at the Guardian. See also Chapter 6.2 of Smashing Physics.

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The Higgs will be open access

George Monbiot is right, but how did particle physics escape? At the Guardian. I read George Monbiot’s piece on the high social, intellectual and financial cost of the academic publishing business with a familiar sense of outrage, shared in most of the follow … Continue reading

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