Higgs Link Dump

In the aftermath of the July 4th Higgs announcement, my RSS feed has been glutted with articles about the Higgs. My screen is typically filled with far too many browser tabs, but this has made that situation go haywire. Here is a dump of the pile of Higgs-related links I’m currently wading through:

• Victor Stenger: Higgs and Significance – a discussion of the importance of statistical significance in announcing new discoveries.
• Higgs search update: basics and subtleties | Blog
• Double X Science: So What’s the Big Deal About the Higgs Boson, Anyway? A Physics Double Xplainer
• Higgs Aftermath
• Higgs boson: What’s it for? I have no idea, says Prof – Telegraph
• Physics Buzz: First the Higgs, Next Supersymmetry?
• Now that we’ve got the Higgs, what’s next? – Starts With A Bang
• Letters: Higgs boson: credit where it’s due | Science | The Guardian
• After the Higgs Boson: What Scientists Will Do With the Discovery – The Daily Beast
• The celebrated God particle, by Mark Twain | Quantum Diaries
• Higgs, Higgs, Higgs | Not Even Wrong
• The Meaning of the Higgs | Good Math, Bad Math
• What the Discovery of the Higgs Means for Scientists | Wired Science | Wired.com
• A New Era Dawns | Of Particular Significance
• New boson could pave the way towards new discoveries | Quantum Diaries
• Higgs-like discovery from the inside | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics | Science | guardian.co.uk
• Why the Higgs Particle Matters | Of Particular Significance
• What Can We Do With the Higgs Boson? | Wired Science | Wired.com
• The Reference Frame: LHC Higgs: does it deviate from the Standard Model too much?
• Physics Buzz: Does 5-sigma = discovery?
• 6 reasons why the ‘God particle’ matters – Technology & Science – CBC News
• What Can We Do With the Higgs Boson? | Wired Science | Wired.com
• Higgs for Mere Mortals
• Physics and Physicists: What Are The Possible Implications Of The Higgs, and What Is The Role Of the Higgs In Generating Mass?
• Nobel Laureates in Physics React to the Higgs-Like Particle News [Video]: Scientific American
• Higgs Discovery: The Data | Of Particular Significance
• Higgs Discovery: Skill and A Little Luck | Of Particular Significance
• Higgs Discovery: Is it a Higgs? | Of Particular Significance
• Higgs Discovery: Is it a Simplest Higgs? | Of Particular Significance
• We (Apparently) Found the Higgs Boson. Now, Where the Heck Did It Come From? | The Crux | Discover Magazine  (This is, hands-down, the best plain-English description of the Higgs mechanism I’ve found thus far. No, correction. The second best after the next one.)
• Higgs 101 | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

On top of all of that, the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2012) is currently underway in Melbourne, Australia:

• So many attempts, so little luck | Quantum Diaries
• Conferences, then and now
• ICHEP 2012: Day One
• ICHEP 2012: Day Two
• ICHEP 2012: Day Three

As if all of that weren’t enough, the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting has been going on:

• In-Depth Report
• Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: From the Big Bang to the Big Controversy (aka Climate Change)
• The Higgs, Sterile Neutrinos and Spintronics: Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Day 2
• What It Means to Find a Higgs : Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Day 3
• How to Succeed in Science: Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Day 4 | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network