[Sci-tech-public] Dave Kaiser in LRB

[Mike Fischer]

Kudos to Dave Kaiser for a piece in the London Review of Books, 25Aug  
issue, called "Short Cuts" on the search for the Higgs boson.   
Erudite, informative and accessible, it also has a lovely tone of  
being simultaneously serious and not taking ourselves too seriously:  
"Higgs hunting is a game of looking for bumps in the night: tiny but  
otherwise unexplainable deviations in those histograms . . . There  
will be widespread elation among the world's physicists if-- when? --  
decisive evidence of the Higgs bonson accumulates.  But as a glass- 
half filled kind of guy, I would also be excited if no Higgs  
materialises.  Nothing beats the thrill of the hunt."