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I had to run for what seemed like a long time, headed for home, confused and hurt and crying.

I bet everyone knows what the road home looks like through tears; mine looked like patches of dry grass, bumpy hard dirt, a tiny basketball court near a cow field, and ditches along dirt roads. I was about seven, and as I rode dirtbikes and climbed around in treehouses with the neighbors' kids that day, someone called me a hippie, in such a way that I knew I'd been insulted. I think there was some sort of horrifying children's ritual like "everyone stood in a circle around me and pointed and laughed." So I ran.

Hey, do you have any idea where you want these?

I look up from my clipboard and meet the eye of a woman holding pair of large Chinese lanterns. One paper globe is bright blue, the other is pumpkin orange. A tangle of cables hang behind her like Godzilla’s tail, disappearing behind a nearby trunk of wires and power strips.

Heralded in headlines as “the God particle,” the discovery of Higgs

boson generated an almost electric media buzz last July. We're told repeatedly in news reports that the Higgs boson "gives particles mass," but what does that mean? Like all short, pithy statements in physics there is some truth contained therein, but the reality is more nuanced and subtle than befits a sound bite.

Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding

I had to run for what seemed like a long time, headed for home, confused and hurt and crying.

The Festival of Finding Out

Hey, do you have any idea where you want these?

Colliding With Discovery

Heralded in headlines as “the God particle,” the discovery of Higgs

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